BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
AND EDITORIAL NOTE
This edition of the
Gerard's Herbal is taken from the 1633 edition, expanded and edited by Thomas
Johnson. The references to "the author" are Johnson's comments on
Gerard's original text.
The following changes
have been made for this edition:
- The spelling has been
modernised and obsolete words standardised as the primary spelling used by the
OED.
- An introduction and some
poems in Latin have been omitted.
- Greek has for the most part
been omitted; when included, it has been transliterated.
- A translation of Latin
sentences and phrases, if not translated in the original, follows each one in
square brackets
- Notes by Thomas Johnson
describing and explaining differences from the 1597 edition have been omitted
