A litle herball of the properties of herbes, newly amended [and] corrected, wyth certayn additions at the ende of the boke, declaring what herbes hath influence of certain sterres and constellations, whereby maye be chosen the best and most lucky tymes and dayes of their ministracion, according to the moone beyng in the signes of heaue[n] the which is daily appoi[n]ted in the almanacke, made and gathered in the yeare of our Lorde God. M.D.L. the. xii. daye of February, by Anthony Askha[m] physycyon (In Paules churcheyearde, at the signe of the Swanne, by Ihon kynge, 1561)
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., I, p. 12, 14-15; no. 192. - Identified as STC 857 (University of Michigan copy) on UMI microfilm. - One of several versions of an anonymous herbal probably of medieval origin. Askham's name on the title page refers to the almanac, and he may have had nothing to do with the editing of this edition. - Printer's name and address from colophon; publication date from STC. - Reproduction of the original in University of Wisconsin, Madison. Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 13175.19. - Signatures: A-K (-K8)