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Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-08-06. Paperback. Good.

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Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-16. Paperback. Good.

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London: Printed for the Author, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Quarter new calf in contemporary style, raised bands, blind stamped compartments, black leather spine label, gilt title and ruling. New endpapers. vi, 200 pp., [4 pp. index]. a-a2, A-Fff2. Three hundred original hand-coloured plates (2 folding), after Georg Dionysius Ehret (16 plates), Miller, and others. The plates are signed: "R. Lancake delin." or "I. Miller delin et sculp," and T. Jefferys sculp." Spine and boards fine. Edges of text block are damp stained, with damp staining to margins (mostly top and outer margins, occasionally to lower margin and gutter). General foxing throughout commensurate with age, rust stain to p. 192. Paper repairs to title page and edges of index pages, and to pl. CCCXXII. A few short closed tears to lower margins, and one small open tear to fore edge of p. 57, text not affected. 1.25" tear to foot of p. 63 repaired at reverse with full strip of paper reinforcement. Small… Read More

London: F.C. and J. Rivington [et al.] 1809.. Third edition. Folio. 2 vols bound in one. (42 x 26 cm.) Bound by Galvan in full crushed red morocco richly gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpaperds all edges gilt. Matching slipcase. 300 hand-coloured engraved plates (Including 2 folding) after Georg Dionysius Ehret, Richard Lancake, John Miller, William Houstoun and John Bartram, junior, by Miller, J. Jefferys and J. Mynde Occasional trivial spots and blemishes, one plate (no.2) lightly browned, generally a particularly clean and handsome copy. First published 1755-60, second edition 1771. "The most distinguished and influential British gardener of the eighteenth century" (DNB).

Two volume set. Original full speckled calf professionally rebacked in calf; pastedowns renewed; fly sheets and title mounted. Complete with 300 full-page hand-colored copper plates (2 folding). Miller was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, where many of the engravings were made under his supervision. Drawings were taken from living plants at their greatest expression of flowering. A high point in botany. ; 200; [iv] pages. 10.75 x 16.25 inches; 27 x 41.4 cm.

London: Printed for the Author; And Sold by John Rivington [et al.], [1755]-60. FIRST EDITION. 425 x 270 mm. (16 3/4 x 10 5/8"). vi, 200, [4] pp. Two volumes in one.. Contemporary calf, cover with thin gilt border and small cornerpieces, raised bands, compartments with much gilt tooling, red label with gilt lettering, skillfully rebacked preserving most of original backstrip. WITH 300 LOVELY HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF FLOWERS (two of which are folding). Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Pollexfen Bastard. Sitwell, "Great Flower Books," p. 121; Hunt 566; Henrey 1097; Pritzel 6242; Nissen 1378; Hazel le Rougetel, "The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller 1691-1771," pp. 110, 114. ◆Covers somewhat scratched, corners a bit worn, but the restored binding solid and appealing. Occasional mild thumbing or light browning, perhaps a dozen plates with minor to moderate offsetting, but A VERY PLEASING COPY INTERNALLY, quite clean and fresh, and with attractive coloring. By a man characterized by DNB… Read More