John Miller (1715-1790)

Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei/Illustration of the Sexual System of the Genera Plantarum of Linnaeus

London: the author, 1777, large folio, with 108 hand-colored engraved plates, 1-4 of leaf forms numbered, the other 104 unnumbered without lettering and dates, the unnumbered plates each accompanied by a duplicate impression, uncolored but with lettering and dates [212 plates total], in brown calf with gilt fillet, the (later) spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and rule, the edges cut and tinted, with marbled endpapers.
[Stafleu SL-II 6482; Nissen BBI 1372; Stearn p. 120]



leaf 53.0 x 36.2 cm; overall 55.2 x 39.7 cm

Provenance: Estate of Richard Anthony Goula, proceeds to benefit the Thistlewood Foundation, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Literature: See also W. B. Hemsley, "John Miller and His Work", in The Gardener's Chronicle, March 1, 1890 (3:VII), pp. 255-256.