Set of Nine 19th Century Botanical Engravings by Woodville

Set of nine 18th Century hand-coloured botanical engravings by Woodville. 

These engravings come from Medical Botany, Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, Comprehended in the Catalogues of the Materia Medica, as Published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: Accompanied with a Circumstantial Detail of their Medicinal Effects, and of the Diseases in which They have been Most Successfully Employed. 

“Medical Botany” is renowned for its descriptions of the physical appearance, location, and therapeutic use of 274 herbs believed to hold healing and other health promoting properties.

Descriptive text accompanies each botanical drawing. 

This set has a fascinating history and will have an immense decorative impact in any interior.