THREE ESSAYS: ON PICTURESQUE BEAUTY; ON PICTURESQUE TRAVEL; AND ON SKETCHING LANDSCAPE: TO WHICH IS ADDED A POEM, ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING.
London: R. Blamire, 1792. First Edition. Octavo, [4], viii, 88, v, [3], 44, iii, [1] pages. In Good condition. Bound in early mottled calf, morocco label with gilt lettering to spine. Some general wear and rubbing, including fraying to corners, spine cracking with parks of lower and upper third missing. Ex-library, with blind-stamps to both boards, gilt numbering to tail of spine, bookplate to front free endpaper, stamps to unprinted rectos of each plate, other leaves, stamping to verso of title page. Bookplate to front pastedown. With all seven aquatint plates, one tinted. With a half-title. With an errata slip facing page 84. The poem has divisional title ’On landscape painting, a poem’, and separate pagination and register. Shelved case 10. More