EditorialWild houndstongue, Cynoglossum officinalis, and borage, Borago officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialBorage. Book of Hours. France (Tours), 1510-1525; detached calendar leave. (Whole folio) Initial and text. Borders with trompe l'oeil decoration including borage. Image taken from Book of Hours. Originally published/produced in France (Tours), 1510-1...
EditorialWild houndstongue, Cynoglossum officinalis, and borage, Borago officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialPyrenean violet, Ramonda myconi (Borage-leav'd mullein, Verbascum myconi). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1793.
EditorialCommon borage, Borago officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.
EditorialBorage or starflower, Borago officinalis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) ...
EditorialBorage or starflower, Borago officinalis, native to Syria. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in...
EditorialParts of fructification in borage Borago officinalis (1), pea Pisum sativum (2,3), snapdragon Antirrhinum (5), and sweet pea Lathyrus odorata (4) .