The gardeners dictionary: . containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture: including the management of vineyards, with the methods of making and preserving the wine, ... The seventh edition, revised and altered according to the latest system of botany; and embellished with several copper-plates, which were not in the former editions. By Philip Miller, ...
Philip Miller (1691-1771)
Category
Books
Date
1756 - 1759
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3038328
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1368]p., [18] leaves of plates . ill.. . fol.. Previous shelfmark: L.6.8. Not identified in 1796 inventory. Christie's, 21 June 2004, lot 633.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet border; blind roll on board edges; gilt fillets and red gilt title label on spine.
Makers and roles
Philip Miller (1691-1771)