Gilpin william s (11 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. This work, published in 1832, is an important treatise on picturesque landscape gardening and was highly regarded in its day. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430. . 2013. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2-1843), landscape painter and illustrator, later became a landscape gardener and writer. He set himself up as a drawing master in Paddington Green and also illustrated picturesque travel-writing. Between 1804 and 1806 he was the first president of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and then the third drawing master at the Royal Military College in Marlow. After being discharged from this post, Gilpin became a successful landscape gardener and advisor to the nobility. His approach to landscape gardening was influenced by painting and Sir Uvedale Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794). Gilpin's Hints, published in 1832, advocates that landscapes should be improved by the 'taste' of a painter's eye, and artificial buildings united with their surroundings. Like his landscape practice, this book was highly regarded by Gilpin's contemporaries for its emphasis on the picturesque, especially when landscape gardening centred upon the introduction of exotic plants.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Previous owner's name in ink, and an ink stamp on front free end paper. Cloth spine with brown paper over boards, textblock edges deckled, 235 pages, illustrated with 16 plates. Covers soiled and worn, spine label heavily chipped, front hinge loosening, scattered foxing throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 7 oz. Category: Gardening; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014113. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. xii, 235pp, 16 lithographic plates, paper covered boards (worn) with new cloth spine, new endpapers with pocket at rear containing two additional rough sketches (one dated 1850) of Ethy Estate, some foxing mainly affecting plates, inscr on first (blank) page.…

Zustand: Good. Second Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked. Corners bumped. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Inner hinges cracked. Occasional light foxing. 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). xii, 235pp. 16 lithographic plates. Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. The second edition of William S. Gilpin's beautifully illustrated guide to landscape gardening, with sixteen plates. The second edition of this work, which was first published in 1832.Illustrated with sixteen lithographs by the author. Collated, complete.Gilpin was a remarkably successful landscape gardener and designer. Throughout his career he worked at hundreds of sites, including Blayney Castle, Wolterton Hall and Scotney Castle.Features enjoyed and employed by Gilpin included amoeba-shaped flower beds, gently curving paths through irregular shrubberies, and raised terrace walks.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.A beautiful guide to nineteenth century landscape gardening. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, retaining the original boards and with original back strip partially laid down. Endpapers renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with spotting to plate and page perimeters. Very Good. William S. Gilpin (illustrator). book.…