Gilbert Knowles [SEP] date of death
Gilbert Knowles
Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734) was an English Roman Catholic priest, botanist and poet.
He is known only for his "Materia Medica Botanica" (London, 1723, 4to), this work is dedicated to Dr. Richard Mead, and consists of 7355 Latin hexameters. Four hundred plants of the materia medica are described and their uses in medicine explained. Various episodes, some of which may yet be read with pleasure, are interwoven with the subject for the sake of ornament. Knowles alludes to his verses
Books, , Pub date Sep 1981, trade paperback (black). Simultaneously published in Canada.
- 1982, UK, Victor Gollancz, , Pub date May 1982, hardcover (white dust jacket).
- 1982, UK, Victor Gollancz, , Pub date May 1982, trade paperback (white).
- 1983, UK, Methuen, , Pub date 1983, mass market paperback.
- 1983, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Oct 1983, mass market paperback. Yvonne Gilbert