William Gilpin

Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to Which is Added a Poem, on Landscape Painting. by William Gilpin, ...

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British Library

T099007

With a half-title. The poem has divisional title 'On landscape painting, a poem', and separate pagination and register. With an errata slip facing p. 84.

London : printed for R. Blamire, 1792. [4],viii,88;v,[3],44,iii,[1]p.,plates ; 8°