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MILLER, PHILIP. 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. London: Printed for the author, [1755-] 1760.
2 vols., folio, 414 x 250 mm., contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with red and black morocco labels, joints and corners neatly repaired, the joints slightly cracked but sound, plate 6 spotted, occasional minor offsetting and showthrough, mostly towards the end of vol. 2, front endpapers of vol. 1 creased.
FIRST EDITION. 300 handcolored engraved plates, some partly color-printed and finished by hand, plates 222 and 295 large and folding, after drawings by J. Bartram, G.D. Ehret, W. Houstoun, R. Lancake and J.S. Mueller.
In his preface Miller explains that the expenses of production have caused him "...almost from the Beginning...to contract his Plan, and confine it to those Plants only, which are either curious in themselves, or may be useful in Trades, Medicine, &c., including the Figures of such new Plants as have not been noticed by any former Botanists." William Houstoun supplied drawings of Mexican and Caribbean plants.
Dunthorne 209; Great Flower Books p. 68; Henrey 1097; Hunt 566; Nissen BBI 1378; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6059.
Provenance: Frankland, engraved bookplate. (2)
2 vols., folio, 414 x 250 mm., contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with red and black morocco labels, joints and corners neatly repaired, the joints slightly cracked but sound, plate 6 spotted, occasional minor offsetting and showthrough, mostly towards the end of vol. 2, front endpapers of vol. 1 creased.
FIRST EDITION. 300 handcolored engraved plates, some partly color-printed and finished by hand, plates 222 and 295 large and folding, after drawings by J. Bartram, G.D. Ehret, W. Houstoun, R. Lancake and J.S. Mueller.
In his preface Miller explains that the expenses of production have caused him "...almost from the Beginning...to contract his Plan, and confine it to those Plants only, which are either curious in themselves, or may be useful in Trades, Medicine, &c., including the Figures of such new Plants as have not been noticed by any former Botanists." William Houstoun supplied drawings of Mexican and Caribbean plants.
Dunthorne 209; Great Flower Books p. 68; Henrey 1097; Hunt 566; Nissen BBI 1378; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6059.
Provenance: Frankland, engraved bookplate. (2)