Under the Bramble Arch: Special Edition – Corinne Boyer (Troy)

Description

A special edition of the second volume in Corinne Boyer’s trilogy of plant-folklore grimoires, following Under the Witching Tree and published by Troy Books. Where the first book explored the trees, this volume turns to the plants of the wayside — those liminal places where the wild meets the unkempt, forgotten margins of human landscapes. Drawing on nearly twenty years in the field, Boyer moves through twenty plants across the turning year, from blackberry, nightshade and mullein in autumn’s black earth medicines, through the midwinter charms of ivy, mistletoe and broom, to violet, nettle and dandelion in spring and rose, mugwort and St. John’s Wort at midsummer — each accompanied by tales, charms, spells and hands-on recipes, with practical appendices on infusions, tinctures, salves and fumigations.

Special Edition, bound in dark green cloth with a foliate wolf’s-head (or goat’s-head) device blocked in copper foil to the upper board. [Limitation number and total run to confirm from the colophon.