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MILLER, PHILIP. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden,as also, the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard. Engraved frontispiece and 4 plates. [4], xvi, [842] pages, including initial license leaf. Folio, 352x222 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, cover corners worn, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; repaired clean tear in dedication leaf, contents otherwise generally clean. Armorial bookplate of Robert Briscoe, Esq. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, 1733
Second edition of a work originally published the year before; an appendix appeared in 1735 and a second volume in 1739. The author (1691-1771) "was the most distinguished and influential British gardener of the eighteenth century . . . Miller's outstanding work was The Gardeners Dictionary, produced in eight editions (1732-68) during his lifetime. Besides horticulture, it covered agriculture, arboriculture, and wine making" (ODNB). Henrey 1103.
