3. Miller, Philip.
The Gardeners Kalender [Calendar]; Directing what Works are necessary to be done every month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery. With Accounts – I. Of the particular Seasons for the Propagation of all sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Seasons wherein each Sort is proper for the Table. II. Of all Sorts of Trees, Plants and Flowers with the Time of their flowering in each Month. By Philip Miller, Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea. The Eleventh Edition, Adapted to the New Style; With a List of Medicinal Plants, which may be gathered in each Month for Use.
London, Printed by Charles Rivington for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St.Paul’s Church-Yard and James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford-Theatre in Pater-noster Row, 1757. Octavo. Frontispiece, XVIII, 352 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index and one page of advertising for “Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary …with Directions for the Culture of Vineyards and Making Wine in England”. Hardcover / Modern half-leather using the original boards of the 1757-Edition. New endpapers. This rare book is in excellent condition after a professional restoration of the binding. The interior pages and frontispiece-illustration in unusually stunning condition.