This edition contains a facsimile of the beautiful 1551 herbal with its black letter text and woodcut illustrations. To enable easier reading of the text, the editors have included a modernized transcript, together with keyed-in notes and a glossary of unfamiliar or obsolete Tudor words. A short biography of Turner has also been included in order to give an idea of the contribution made by this physician , naturalist and cleric to sixteenth-century English history." -- dust jacket