Explores plants and their significance in Shakespeare's work, detailing how wildflowers, herbs, and gardens function as metaphors for love, beauty, and conflict. The book connects Shakespeare's references to the historical and traditional understanding of herbs as medicine, the magical associations with flowers, and the symbolic and cultural importance of gardens, as well as the lore surrounding bees.
Octavo pp. xi, [1], 235, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Inner hinge cracked. Binding otherwise tight. Pages clean and unmarked.
