Miller, John.

First edition, folio (538 x 360mm.), engraved frontispiece and title, list of subscribers, title and text in English and Latin, 108 engraved plates, 103 (only, of 104) in two states, plain, and printed in colours and finished by hand before letters, contemporary diced russia, covers with borders tooled in gilt and blind, engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden, subscriber, thence by descent to Sir William Eden, [Dunthorne 222; Great Flower Books, p.68; Henrey 1153; Nissen BBI 1372; Stafleu TL2 6483], the pondweed plate in a plain state only, the coloured version apparently never included in this copy, one or two plates spotted, binding rebacked

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A wide-margined copy of Miller's exposition of the Linnaean system. "It was issued in twenty parts from 1775-1777 but isolated plates may have been issued as printed from 1770 onwards: certainly Miller sent some to Linnaeus in October 1772 and in 1773 and 1775. Greatly impressed, Linnaeus wrote that Miller's plates were more beautiful and more accurate than any seen since the beginning of the world" (Great Flower Books).