SHAKER HERBS: AN ESSAY BY CYNTHIA ELICE RUBIN WITH 19TH CENTURY SHAKER HERB LABELS.
- (Northampton, MA): Catawba Press, 1984.
- oblong miniature book (7.2 x 6.2 cm)
- paper-covered boards
- 37, (3) pages
Price: $175.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 116443
Limited to 155 numbered copies (Bradbury, Catawba, 1). Surveys the origins of the Shaker religious community and their production and marketing of various medicinal herbs. Contains descriptions of those herbs and their supposed medicinal benefits. An excerpt from "Shaker Industries" in The Clarion (Fall 1979), reprinted with the permission of the Museum of American Folk Art. Labels tipped in frontispiece and in the text.
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