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[COLOR-PLATE BOOKS]. GILPIN, William (1724-1804). Two Titles with Hand-Tinted Aquatint Plates, including: Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776 on several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. London: R. Blamire, 1789. 8vos. Illustrated with 40 tinted aquatint plates and two aquatint maps. 2 volumes. 221, [1, blank]; 196, [xxi], [1, blank] pp. FIRST EDITION. And Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views, (Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty) Illustrated by the Scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire. London: R. Blamire, 1794. 8vos. With 31 aquatint or lithographic plates and one double-page hand colored map. 3 books bound in 2 volumes. 340; 310, xx pp. SECOND EDITION. All volumes bound in contemporary full black straight-grain morocco, boards ruled in gilt, spines tooled in blind and lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves (bindings worn, spines a bit dull, a few hinges starting, Woodland Scenery has an ownership signature on each title-page, some occasional foxing in text and plates). Very good. Gilpin was an artist, cleric and traveler. He is credited with being one of the first English writers and artists to develop the idea of the “picturesque” aesthetic.