The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin and English; and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening. Together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers proper for gardeners; and of the origin, causes, and nature of meteors, and the particular influence of air, earth, fire and water upon vegetation, according to the best natural philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, gardener to the Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F.R.S.
Philip Miller (1691-1771)
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008467
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, [844] p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; fol. Running number: 5498. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; blind double and single fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt spine, with stamps (including dolphin and crown stamp), fillet and roll tooling; gilt title on green morroco label on spine. Red stained burnished edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Philip Miller (1691-1771) Benjamin Cole (1697 - 1783), engraver (printmaker) Andrew Motte (d.1734), engraver (printmaker)