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An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples
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An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.
Published
London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1844.
Physical Description
x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: Bound in blind-stamped green publisher's cloth. Inscribed on verso of first free end-paper: R. D., 22 September 1877. London.
BAC: Copy appears to have two addtional, possibly extraneous plates (not included in pagination) One is numbered XIX, is dated 1796, by Kennion and bound following actual plate XIX. The other follows section title to Williams' plates.
BAC: 1815 pencilled on t.p.
Notes
Republication of the 1815 edition with a paste-on cancel imprint for Bohn with the statement: "This copy has, beside the usual number of fifty plates, four large unpublished landscapes by Kennion, and six picturesque studies of tress, beautifully etched by H. W. Williams. In all sixty plates.''
Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet street.
Imprint from label on t.p.
Spine title: Kennion's essay on trees.
Illustrations by Edward Kennion and Hugh William Williams.
Williams' plates have engraved section title: Six etchings of local subjects from nature by H. W. Williams.
Engraved t.p.
Variant and related titles
Essay on trees in landscape
Attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples
Kennion's essay on trees
Essay on trees
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
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Aquatints - 1844.
Soft-ground etchings - 1844.
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