The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
Christopher Hussey
1927
G.P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition
8vo
Description:
First Edition. Christopher Hussey's seminal aesthetic study defining the Picturesque movement in eighteenth-century British art, landscape design, and literature. Tracing the evolution of taste between the Sublime and the Beautiful, Hussey examines how visual theories shaped landscape gardening, architecture, poetry, and painting across the Georgian era.
Condition:
Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents are foxed to top-edge. Offsetting to front end paper. Ex libris to inside front cover. Leaf 183-186 is loose. Boards are clean. Tanning to spine.
The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View
Christopher Hussey
1927
G.P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition
8vo
Description:
First Edition. Christopher Hussey's seminal aesthetic study defining the Picturesque movement in eighteenth-century British art, landscape design, and literature. Tracing the evolution of taste between the Sublime and the Beautiful, Hussey examines how visual theories shaped landscape gardening, architecture, poetry, and painting across the Georgian era.
Condition:
Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents are foxed to top-edge. Offsetting to front end paper. Ex libris to inside front cover. Leaf 183-186 is loose. Boards are clean. Tanning to spine.
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