MILLER, Philip. The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery... The seventh edition, revised and altered according to the latest system of botany. Two volumes. [1368]pp., engraved frontispiece and 19 engraved plates. Full contemporary calf, ornate gilt panelled spines, with red and green morocco labels. Minor wear to the head and tail of the spines, but a handsome copy. Internally there is some worming, mainly marginal and confined to the first section of Vol I. Discolouration to the end-papers and paste-downs. folio. printed for the author; and sold by John Rivington; A. Millar; J. Whiston, B. White, G. Hawkins [and 11 others in London], [1756-]1759. ESTC T59415. "The seventh edition was published in 112 numbers, .. between 16 October 1756 and 31 March 1759" (Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, 1111). “Arguably one of the greatest gardeners who excelled at both plantsmanship and authorship was Philip Miller, Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden for almost fifty years, and the centre of an international network of plant enthusiasts and botanists. In a brief memoir of Miller’s life included in The Vegetable Cultivator in 1839, the unnamed author (who had met Miller personally) writes that Miller was distinguished for his great theoretical knowledge of plants and "especially by his skill in their cultivation." It was through The Gardeners Dictionary that he reached such an enormous audience. It was said that it was the Dictionary laid the foundation of the horticultural taste and knowledge in Europe.