> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 933](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121064) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13091-1) LSID 13091-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333338) QID Q1333338 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gerard (e), John (1545-1612), British physician ("barber surgeon") and gardener. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Gerard* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Gerard*\] #### Herbarium It is not known whether Gerard made herbarium specimens. The Sloane herbarium (BM) has a set of early seventeenth century plants collected by Petrus Gerard with names following John Gerard's publications. Nothing is known about the link between the two Gerards. *Ref*.: Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 132. 1958. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 894; Barnhart 2: 40; BB p. 120; BM 2: 660; Bossert p. 142; DNB 21: 221; Henrey 153-156; Jackson p. 550 \[Index\]; PR 3282-3283. - Jackson, A catalogue of plants cultivated in the Garden of John Gerard in the years 1596-1599. Edited with... a life of the author. London 1876. - Fox, Fothergill 427 \[ind.\]. 1919. - Druce, Fl. Oxfordshire 372. 1886, ed. 2. Ixiii-lxiv. 1927. - Curtis, William Curtis 5. 1941. - Raven, Early English naturalists from Neckham to Ray 204-217. 1947. - Hadfield, Pioneers in Gardening 11-16. 1951. - Jeffers, The friends of John Gerard (1545-1612), surgeon and botanist. Falls Village, Conn. 1967. - Steam, DSB 5: 361-363. 1972 (bibl.) - Smit, History of the Life Sciences 938, 1049. 1974. - Anon., House and Garden 29(9): 145-146. 1974. #### Eponymy *Gerardia* Linnaeus (1753); *Graderia* Bentham (1846, anagram). ### Publications ##### n.1993. The Herball **Title** *The Herball* or general historie of plantes. London (John Norton) 1597. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Herball*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1597, \[xx\], 1392 p., \[72 p.\] index, engr. t.p., portrait of author, (circa) 2146 woodcuts. *Copies*: MO, NY. *Ed. 1633*: "Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, " London (Adam Filip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers), Fol., \[36\], 1634 \[1-30, 29-30, 29-1630\], \[2\], \[45\], \[1\], \[2\] P., 2821 woodcuts \[fide NI\]. *Copy*: NY. *Ed. 1636*: Edited by Thomas Johnson, etc., reissue of 1633 ed. with 1636 title page. *Copy*: MO. *Ed. 1927*: Abridged edition by M. Woodward, London (Gerald Howe), Qu., xix, 303 p., repr. Spring Books 1964, xix, 303 p., *108 figs. Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 2: 660; Henrey 154-156; HU 175, 223, 230 (q.v. for complete collations); NI 698; PR 3283. ##### n.1994. Catalogus arborum **Title** *Catalogus arborum*, fruticum ac plantarum tarm indigenarum, quam exoticarum, in horto Johannis Gerardi civis et chirurgi Londinensis nascentium. London (Arnold Hatfield) 1599, small folio. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. arb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1599, p. \[i-iii\], 1-22. *Copies*: HU (2). – The first edition was that of 1596 of which the only known copy is at BM-Bloomsbury. Jackson (1876) reprints both editions. *Facsimile reprint* of the 1599 edition (200 copies) by J. Cramer, Weinheim 1962, \[i-iv\], 1-22. *Copies*: FAS, NY, U. – See also HU 177 and HU app. 15. *Ref*.: BB p. 120; BM 2: 660; Henrey 153-154; PR 3283. - Jackson, A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard in the years 1596-1599. Edited with... a life of the author, by B. D.Jackson. London 1876.