HUMANITIES - GILPIN, William. Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape [...]. London, for R. Blamire, 1792. 8vo. Contemp. blind-tooled full calf with raised bands, gold-tooled compartments and spine title on lettering piece. Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown (Charles Steward with motto "Praesto Et Persto" and residence "Somerleyton Rectory"), hinges cracked (binding still firm). With a half-title and 7 aquatint plates (incl. 1 hand-coloured). Sl. foxed, several tiny marginal holes & tears, else good. Complete, first edition. (4), VIII, 88, V, (3), 44, III, (1) pp. Notes: Gilpin was the founder of the 'picturesque' concept, which set grounds for the aesthetics discourse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
HUMANITIES - GILPIN, William. Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape [...]. London, for R. Blamire, 1792. 8vo. Contemp. blind-tooled full calf with raised bands, gold-tooled compartments and spine title on lettering piece. Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown (Charles Steward with motto "Praesto Et Persto" and residence "Somerleyton Rectory"), hinges cracked (binding still firm). With a half-title and 7 aquatint plates (incl. 1 hand-coloured). Sl. foxed, several tiny marginal holes & tears, else good. Complete, first edition. (4), VIII, 88, V, (3), 44, III, (1) pp. Notes: Gilpin was the founder of the 'picturesque' concept, which set grounds for the aesthetics discourse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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