First published more than 400 years ago? "The Herbal or General History of Plants" by John Gerard provided a vast storehouse of botanical information. This handsome collection of over 200 beautiful illustrations selected from that famous publication depicts a wide array of those fruits? vegetables? herbs? and garden flowers. Included in the set are one CD-ROM containing 214 high-quality? permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF? PICT? EPS? BMP? as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF); and a large-format 48-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly and numbered for easy reference. Also included on the CD-ROM is Dover Design Manager? a simple graphics editing program for Windows. Ideal for craftwork as well as for use in gardening books? cookbooks? and general-interest publications? these illustrations will also delight any herbal enthusiast.CD-ROM | 48 pages94 x 144 x 16mm | 20g38478Dover Publications Inc.New York? United StatesEnglish