Jules Jones

brooksmoses and I did lunch and books again today, after some conversation about herb encyclopaedias in the previous lunch and books entry. I'm going to copy the meat of it over to a top level entry so it's easier to find later. supermouse had suggested the "Encyclopaedia of Herbs and Herbalism", Malcolm Stuart, Caxton Press as an excellent source with both folklore and modern medical uses, so we hit up Bookbuyers to see if they had a copy.

They didn't, but what they did have was A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H) and A Modern Herbal (Volume 2, I-Z and Indexes) in Dover reprint, which seems to be roughly the same sort of thing except three times the size and from 1931 (so thus missing the modern medicine, but including a reasonable bit from what was current at the time). The plates are relatively few and in black and white, but it looked a pretty decent reference book. I resisted temptation because it's not what I actually need for research material right now and I already have a fair bit of herbal material, but I may well get a copy at some point.

And for the benefit of brooksmoses, the book on cooking with wild plants and history of their use is All Good Things Around Us.