The abridgement of The gardeners dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery; together with the management of vineyards, and the methods of making wine in England. In which likewise are included directions for propagating and improving, from real practice and experience, pasture lands and all sorts of timber trees.
Philip Miller (1691-1771)
Category
Books
Date
1771
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3185846
Summary
Bibliographic description
[928]p., plates: ill. ; 4to. Final two leaves are publisher's advertisement. No ownership marks. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf, single gilt rule forming a border, sewn of five cords[?]. Gilt tooling on spine. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Miller's Gardeners dictionary". Gilt gauffered edges, marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Philip Miller (1691-1771), author