Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in The gardeners dictionary, . exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's method of classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. ... In two volumes. ...
Philip Miller (1691-1771)
Category
Books
Date
1760
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3051102
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.(vi,200,[4]p.) . ill.. (plates) . fol... The plates are hand-coloured. Identified in 1768 catalogue: L.2 (5 in later hand).. Provenance: Bookplate in both vols.: George Harry Grey (1737-1819) after 1768; anonymous armorial variant 1. Not in Franks or Viner.. Binding: 18th century blind panelled brushed calf bindings; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt title and vol. no. labels on spines.
Makers and roles
Philip Miller (1691-1771)