Philip Miller (British 1691-1771) "Gardeners Dictionary," Six Hand Colored Botanical Prints, comprising; Plates CXCVII, Padus; CLXXI, Lycium; CCVII, Phytolacca; CXCII, Ornithogalum; CCXII, Pulmonaria; and CLXVII, Lonicera. Matted and framed.

Dimensions: 13 x 8.5 in, plate size, 21.5 x 16 in. as framed.

Condition: Light toned with some scattered foxing. Lonicera Plate with enhancement to plate number in upper right.

Philip Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until his death, an esteemed Scottish horticulturalist and botanist, Philip Miller's expertise was made widely available in his renowned Gardeners Dictionary, published in editions from 1731 to 1768, while his students went on to establish the botanic gardens of Kew and Cambridge. The Dictionary not only covered methods of cultivation, but provided a systematic botanical compendium of all wild-growing and cultivated plants in Britain then known. This latter aspect makes the volume valuable to botanists today.