Gilpin, William. - OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO PICTURESQUE BEAUTY, Made in the Year 1776, On Several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the Highlands of Scotland.

London : printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. vii + xi + [i] errata + 221pp. + [ii] + 195pp. + xvi. 40 plates including 1 diagram, 5 hand coloured plans, 34 sepia soft ground aquatints. Some light browning, contemporary mottled calf with intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards, corners sl. rubbed, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt tooled bands with gilt motifs and modern gilt lettered labels to spine, minor wear. ¶ ESTC T99001. Abbey Scenery 487 (First Edition). William Gilpin (1724–1804) English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. Gilpin travelled widely in Britain, with his notebook and sketching materials, in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit', as he wrote the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'.

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