Author: Gilpin, William.
Title: OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO PICTURESQUE BEAUTY, Made in the Year 1772, On several Parts of England; Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland.
Description: London : Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. 3rd Ed. 2 vols. xxxiv + xvi + 238pp. + t.p. + 264pp. + xiv + [i] errata. Half title present to vol. 1. 26 aquatint/softground plates, 1 profile plate, 3 hand coloured maps. Some light browning, contemporary mottled calf with intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards, corners sl. rubbed, rebacked with much of original spines laid down, gilt tooled bands with gilt motifs and modern gilt lettered labels to spines. ¶ ESTC T98999. ‘With a final errata leaf in vol. 2.’ Abbey Scenery 187; Prideaux p.337. 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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