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Alfred Pasternack
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Rare books, manuscripts, that sort of thing. Bookseller @quaritch, bookbinder. Oooh, serifs.
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Italian rocket: has flowers "of a naughty savor" and seeds "in taste like Rocket seed"

Gerarde's Herball, 1633, p. 277, with two botanical woodcuts and text reading "Of Italian Rocket ... Italian Rocket hath long leaves cut into many parts or divisions like those of the Ash tree, resembling Ruellius his Bucks-horne: among which rise up stalks weake and tender, but thicke and grosse, two foot high, garnished with many small yellowish floures like the middle part of Tansie floures, of a naughty savor or smell. The feed is small like sand or dust, in taste like Rocket seed, whereof in truth wee suspect it to be a kinde. The root is long and wooddy."
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Alfred Pasternack
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Rare books, manuscripts, that sort of thing. Bookseller @quaritch, bookbinder. Oooh, serifs.
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