
MILLER (PHILIP) Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary, 2 vol., for the Author, 1771
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MILLER (PHILIP)
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A very attractively illustrated botany, including 16 plates after Georg Dionysius Ehret, 155 after Richard Lancake, and 83 by or after John Miller. Others are unattributed plates but American plant hunters are credited with having provided three original drawings: 2 by William Houstoun (1695-1733), and one by John Bartram (1699-1777) of Philadelphia, the first American-born botanist. In the preface Miller explains that the expense of the production has caused him "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".