The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing, The Methods Of Cultivating and Improving The Kitchen, Flower, Fruit and Pleasure Garden; Wherein All The Articles Contained In The former Editions Of This Work, In Two Volumes are Disposed in One Alphabet

Miller, Philip

Published by John & James Rivington for the author, The Bible & Crown, St Paul's Churchyard, 1752

About this Item

Sixth edition, carefully revised and adapted to the present day. Folio, an engraved allegorical frontispiece and nine engraved plates, a light marginal staining at the bottom inner corner of the first ten pages (repeated a couple of times later), a tear to the last page of the preface and another on a later page (both without loss), the title page a little creased, the hinge between the dedication page and the preface is cracking but without any weakness, otherwise quite clean and sound internally, full contemporary calf very rubbed and scuffed with surface abrasion, but still sound, rebacked with a later calf spine (probably nineteenth century), torn at the spine head, with a morocco title label. Bound in at the front is a second frontispiece - The Genius of Botany - drawn by S. Hale and engraved by C. Grignion; this is smaller in format than the book, and the only reference I can find is that it acts as the frontispiece to Hill's "Eden", though it seems too small for that work. It is a little creased, and lacking part of it's margin. Blanche Henrey 1110. [An important edition, as it is the last to contain pre-Linnean nomenclature. Includes the Index latinus, the lengthy catalogues of plants, The Gardeners Kalendar and the Appendix.].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing, The Methods Of Cultivating and Improving The Kitchen, Flower, Fruit and Pleasure Garden; Wherein All The Articles Contained In The former Editions Of This Work, In Two Volumes are Disposed in One Alphabet
• Publisher: John & James Rivington for the author, The Bible & Crown, St Paul's Churchyard
• Publication Date: 1752
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Edition: Sixth edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Garden History
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