Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape: to which is added a poem, on Landscape Painting.
by Gilpin, William
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- Hardcover
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Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii, 88, v, 44, iiipp. (explanation of the plates & errata). pi2, A4, B8-G8, AA4-CC4, DD8, EE2, *2. First edition. With a half-title presnt. "The poem has divisional title "On landscape painting, a poem", separate pagination and signatures. Final p. blank." Errata on p. iii at end. Bookseller's advertisement on p. iii at end. Slip cancel at p. 85. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked. With six aquatint plates, lacking one facing page 75. ESTC T99007; Abbey, Life 129. Interleaved copy, but without a single entry.
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- Bookseller
- Sam Gatteno Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1974
- 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
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eighteenth Century Books; Artbooks;
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Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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- Octavo
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- Calf
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- First Edition
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- Rebacked
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- Errata
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