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MILLER (PHILIP)
Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary, 2 vol., for the Author, 1771

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MILLER (PHILIP)

Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary, 2 vol., second edition, 300 hand-colored or hand-finished engraved plates (2 folding) after Georg Dionysius Ehret, Richard Lancake, John Miller, William Houstoun and John Bartram, junior, by Miller, J. Jefferys and J. Mynde, occasional toning, light ink stains to plate 151, 8 additional uncoloured botanical plates pasted onto endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked in nineteenth century calf gilt, one joint weakened [Dunthorne 209; Great Flower Books, p.68; Henrey 1097; Hunt 566; Nissen BBI 1378; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 6059], folio (406 x 258mm.), for the Author, 1771

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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".

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