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Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; And On Sketching Landscape: To Which Is Added A Poem, On Landscape Painting
by Gilpin, William
- Used
- Condition
- Contemporary brown tree calf rebacked with original spine laid down. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: R. Blamire, 1794. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf rebacked with original spine laid down. Very good. 143 [5]. 22.5 x 15. Six color aquatint plates, plus one line drawing -- a lesson in perspective. Errata slip, page of publisher adverts. ABBEY LIFE 129. Book label, plates clean, title page, first nine leaves and last nine leaves dampstained; backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt, binding firm and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19410
- Title
- Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; And On Sketching Landscape: To Which Is Added A Poem, On Landscape Painting
- Author
- Gilpin, William
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary brown tree calf rebacked with original spine laid down. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- R. Blamire
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1794
- Keywords
- Paintng
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art Reference; Art Criticism;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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