The gardener's and botanist's dictionary; containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, and nursery; of performing the practical parts of agriculture; of managing vineyards, and of propagating all sorts of timber trees. By the late Philip Miller, F.R.S. gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their botanic garden in Chelsea, and member of the Botanic Academy at Florence. To which are now first added, a complete enumeration and description of all plants hitherto known, with their generic and specific characters, places of growth, times of flowering, and uses both medicinal and economical. The whole corrected and newly arranged, with the addition of all the modern improvements in landscape gardening, and in the culture of trees, plants, and fruits, particularly in the various kinds of hot houses and forcing frames, with plates explanatory both of them, and the principles of botany. By Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S. Regiu

People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for F. and C. Rivington, B. Law, J. Johnson, G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, G. Nicol, R. Baldwin, S. Hayes, R. Faulder, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, B. and J. White, J. Walker, G. and T. Wilkie, J. Scatcherd, T. Kay, Vernor and Hood, T.N. Longman, and T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, M DCC XCVII-M DCCC VII [1797-1807]
Added name
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.
Publication year
1797-1807
ESTC No.
N18290
Grub Street ID
7770
Description
2v.,plates ; 2°.
Note
Not in fact by Philip Miller, but by Thomas Martyn, though founded on Miller

Published in parts, being completed in 1807

Some copies include one or more 1807 titlepages, with imprint reading: 'London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Johnson, G. and W. Nicol, R. Baldwin, W. J. and J. Richardson, S. Hayes, R. Faulder and Son, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, J. Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, Cuthell and Martin, R. Lea, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, J. Taylor, E. Jefferey, W. Clarke and Sons, C. Robinson, C. Law, J. White, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Cadell and Davies, J. Murray, W. Stewart, J. Booth, S. Bagster, and J. Booker: by Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. M DCCC VII.'
Uncontrolled note
Despite punctuation in imprint 'T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies' were partners and should be counted as one printer (Maxted). - Henrey gives dates: [1795]-1807 for this edition