A boxed notecard set featuring beautiful prints of medicinal plants. Healing Plants features sixteen hand-colored plates from Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (1737 39). Blackwell, a talented artist with a passion for the natural world, published her herbal as a means of financial support after her husband landed in debtor's prison, and it quickly became a valuable reference for doctors and apothecaries. These notecards-featuring plants like aloe, chamomile, and St. John's Wort-are the perfect stationery for herbalists and all lovers of botanical illustration. SELLING POINTS: . The perfect stationery for herbalists, gardeners, and admirers of botanical illustration . Sixteen notecards (each with a different design) and seventeen envelopes, housed in a presentation-quality box . Featuring exquisite vintage engravings of chamomile, St. John's Wort, aloe-and cocoa! . The latest in Abbeville's series of botanical notecards, which also includes Mushrooms, Fruits, Herbs and Spices, and The Trees of North America