Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary, seventh edition, engraved frontispiece and 19 plates, engraved head-piece to dedication, woodcut illustrations, contemporary ink annotations throughout (very slightly cropped), light foxing to frontispiece, plate of Polygala torn and repaired, 7C1 with tear to lower margin (repaired), marginal water- and damp-staining towards end causing final leaves to adhere at foot, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, corners repaired, folio, for the Author, sold by John Rivington [& others], 1759; sold not subject to return ⁂ Some of the annotations relate to the owner's experiences of growing particular items e.g. Egyptian Acacia and Amaryllis; others are references to articles in periodicals, particularly Philosophical Transactions. Many are extensive e.g. CELTIS contains a note on the Bishop of London's garden in Fulham in the late 17th century which contained many exotic plants and trees "but left to the management of Ignorant persons" were later removed, and under QUERCUS "See experiments concerning the Life of the Agaric of the Oak in stopping Haemorrhages".
Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary, seventh edition, engraved frontispiece and 19 plates, engraved head-piece to dedication, woodcut illustrations, contemporary ink annotations throughout (very slightly cropped), light foxing to frontispiece, plate of Polygala torn and repaired, 7C1 with tear to lower margin (repaired), marginal water- and damp-staining towards end causing final leaves to adhere at foot, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, corners repaired, folio, for the Author, sold by John Rivington [& others], 1759; sold not subject to return ⁂ Some of the annotations relate to the owner's experiences of growing particular items e.g. Egyptian Acacia and Amaryllis; others are references to articles in periodicals, particularly Philosophical Transactions. Many are extensive e.g. CELTIS contains a note on the Bishop of London's garden in Fulham in the late 17th century which contained many exotic plants and trees "but left to the management of Ignorant persons" were later removed, and under QUERCUS "See experiments concerning the Life of the Agaric of the Oak in stopping Haemorrhages".
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