William Gilpin on the picturesque forest scenery
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Author: Gilpin, William
Title: Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated by the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire
Place Published: London
Publisher:R. Blamire
Date Published: 1791
Description: 2 volumes. [2], vii, [1], 328, iv, 7; [2], 308, iv, xx. Illustrated with 31 plates (21 of which are aquatints), map. (8vo) 22x13.6 cm (8¾x5½"), period tree-calf with gilt-rolled borders, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, filleted edges, marbled endpapers. First Edition."It is no exaggerated praise to call a tree the grandest, and most beautiful of all the productions of the earth". So begins William Gilpin's investigation of trees and forest scenery as seen through the lens of "picturesque" beauty, a category introduced in Italian landscape painting and which spread through garden design and here beyond the walls of the garden to an appraisal of wild nature. NCBEL II, 1405; Abbey, Scenery, 149. Ownership marks on verso of front free endpaper and to title page of each volume.
Author: Gilpin, William
Title: Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views, (Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated by the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire
Place Published: London
Publisher:R. Blamire
Date Published: 1791
Description: 2 volumes. [2], vii, [1], 328, iv, 7; [2], 308, iv, xx. Illustrated with 31 plates (21 of which are aquatints), map. (8vo) 22x13.6 cm (8¾x5½"), period tree-calf with gilt-rolled borders, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, filleted edges, marbled endpapers. First Edition."It is no exaggerated praise to call a tree the grandest, and most beautiful of all the productions of the earth". So begins William Gilpin's investigation of trees and forest scenery as seen through the lens of "picturesque" beauty, a category introduced in Italian landscape painting and which spread through garden design and here beyond the walls of the garden to an appraisal of wild nature. NCBEL II, 1405; Abbey, Scenery, 149. Ownership marks on verso of front free endpaper and to title page of each volume.
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Mild rubbing at extremities with a few light scuffs to calf; minor toning to endpapers, a bit of offsetting from plates, light dampstaining to endleaves of Vol. II at top edges; about near fine.
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William Gilpin on the picturesque forest scenery
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