Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: With A Poem, on Landscape Painting: To These are now Added Two Essays, Giving An Account of the Principles and Mode in Which the Author Executed His Own Drawings.
by Gilpin, William
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1808. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xvi, 183 pages, [1] page advertisement. Illustrated with 11 plates and 3 sketched plates. Later, half leather binding with green blueish marbled paper covered boards. Red leather gilt title label on the spine. Front joint is cracked and front board starting to detach. Rear joint is rubbed. Right front flyleaf and rear end sheet toned. Interior text clean.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30306
- Title
- Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: With A Poem, on Landscape Painting
- Author
- Gilpin, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1808
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Cracked
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...