Essays On The Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape. Volume Ii [ Price's Copy With Extensive Handwritten Corrections, Inserted Manuscript Revisions, Etc.]

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Xxvii, Errata Page, 432 Pp. First Edition Of Volume Ii. Price's Own Copy, In Original Boards Covered With Plain Brown Paper, Half Title Present, Original Cords, Spine Paper Worn Away And Corners Rounded With Slight Wear To Corners Of Pages, Contents Clean With Light Foxing On Some Pages, Many Hand Corrections, Some Entire Paragraphs Crossed Out With Manuscript Page Of Text Intended To Replace It, All Possibly Intended For A Second Edition Of Volume Ii Or The 1810 Complete Revision In Three Volumes, But Not Signed By Price. A Unique Pre-Publication, Such Pre-1800 Material Now Scarce In The Market. An Important Contribution To The Nationwide Controversy That Developed At The End Of The 18Th Century Among People Of Education And Taste On The Merits Of The Picturesque Style Of Landscape Gardening As Against The Smoother Effects Of Capability Brown And Humphrey Repton. Price Advocates Here The First Clear Statement Of The Picturesque Ideal [After William Gilpin's Works On The Subject], Reconciling Burke And Sir Joshua Reynolds. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 030633

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