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 descriptions, 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. member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their botanic garden at Chelsea. In two volumes. Vol.

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Imprint
London : printed for the author; and sold by John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, A. Millar, H. Woodfall, J. Whiston and B. White, J. Hinton G. Hawkins, R. Baldwin, J. Richardson, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, P. Davey and B. Law, T. Caslon, and R. and J. Dodsley, M.DCC.LX. [1760]
Added name
Rivington, John, 1720-1792, bookseller.; Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, bookseller.; Woodfall, H. (Henry), -1767, bookseller.; Hinton, John, -1781, bookseller.; Hawkins, George, -1780, bookseller.; Baldwin, Richard, 1724-1770, bookseller.; Richardson, Joseph, -1763, bookseller.; Johnston, W. (William), -1804, bookseller.; Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.; Davey, P., -1760, bookseller.; Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798, bookseller.; Caslon, Thomas, -1783, bookseller.; Jefferys, Thomas, -1771, engraver.; Miller, John, 1715-1790?, engraver, artist.; Lancake, Richard, active 1760, artist. ; John Whiston and Benj. White, bookseller.; R. and J. Dodsley, bookseller.
Publication year
1760
ESTC No.
T59417
Grub Street ID
285433
Description
2 v. : 300 col. ill. ; 2°.
Note
Pagination: Vol. 1: vi, 104 p., CLVI leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 105-200, [4] p., CLVII-CCC leaves of plates (2 folded)

The plates are signed: "R. Lancake delin." or "I. Miller delin et sculp." and "T. Jefferys sculp.", "J.S. Miller sculp." or "I. Miller sculp."

Woodcut head-piece; woodcut factotum; Includes indices in Latin and English at end of vol. 2.