Small folio. 24 chromolithographed plates. Original pictorial olive green pebbled cloth gilt, all edges gilt (light rubbing to extremities, a few spots of fraying at fore-corners and spine ends, hinges a bit tender).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published simultaneously in England. Miner's work was the first color-plate book of orchids published in America and is considered "the ranking work on the subject and very striking" (Bennett, p.78).