HERBAL. - James NEWTON. A Compleat Herbal… containing the Prints and the English Names of Several Thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c. London: E. Cave, 1752. First edition, 8vo (186 x 111mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of J. Newton, 175 engraved plates, 7pp. 'Index' to rear. (Browning to title, marginal paper repair to plate 145.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some loss to the lettering piece, light rubbing). Note: Newton was a botanist and physician, but he also ran an asylum for the mentally ill in London. He began his herbal in 1680 but died before it was completed and it was published posthumously by his grandson. Provenance: Antonia Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); Francis Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); E.R. Massy (pencil name inscribed to initial blank).