Cambridge Observations (2 results)

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. Library stamps and stickers. Light wear to spine, covers and corners. Some colour variation on the cloth boards from age, light and wear; Lovely condition. Zodiacal star times for the Equinox 1900 to 1918.; Ex-Library; Folio; 58 pages Quarter Cloth with printed boards.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of Gilpin"s picturesque tour through East Anglia and North Wales, illustrated with twenty atmospheric aquatint views of castles and ruins. Bound in a later quarter morocco with paper covered boards, endpapers renewed. Illustrated with twenty aquatint plates of ruins and castles. Collated, complete. First edition. A later work in Gilpin"s celebrated series of picturesque tours, offering descriptive observations on the landscapes of East Anglia and North Wales. This charming study contains Gilpin's observations drawn from travels in North Wales, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, based upon tours undertaken in 1769 and 1773. William Gilpin (1724-1804) was a clergyman, artist, and writer, widely regarded as the first to establish the Picturesque as a distinct aesthetic category; his Essay on Prints (1768) defines it as "that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture," a concept developed through his widely influential tours.Published posthumously, this volume continues his influential exploration of British scenery. Bound in a later quarter morocco with paper covered boards, endpapers renewed. Externally, very smart. Previous owner"s bookplate to front paste down. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with scattered spotting to fore edge, heavier to first and last few leaves and plates. Offsetting from plates to facing pages. Very Good Indeed. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge (illustrator). book.…