Author: Gilpin, William.
Title: REMARKS ON FOREST SCENERY, Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire. In three books.
Description: London; Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1794. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. vii + 340pp. + iv. + 310pp. + [i] + iii + [i] errata + iii + 30pp. + xx. Half titles present. 32 tinted aquatint/soft gound etchings. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, contemporary mottled calf with intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards, corners sl. rubbed, joints sl. rubbed with lightly cracked along upper joints, gilt tooled bands with gilt motifs and modern gilt lettered labels to spines with sl. loss at head and tail. ¶ ESTC T82380 ‘With a half-title to each vol. and a leaf of advertisements after the text in vol. 2.’ Abbey Scenery 149 (First Edition); Prideaux p.337 (First Edition); Upcott 302. 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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