Uvedale Price (1747-1829) : decoding the picturesque / Charles Watkins and Ben Cowell

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; xii, 259 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations (some color), maps, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pp. 244-251) and index. Contents; Ch. 1 T he Greatest Variety of Prospects' -- Patriot, judge, politician and d etermined careerist': Robert Price (1655-1733) -- P ittoresque beyond imagination': Uvedale Tomkyns Price (1685-1764) -- �nbound by glittering chains': Robert Price (1717-1761) -- ch. 2 M acarony of the Age' -- Childhood and Grand Tour -- Inheritance and marriage -- Gardening -- ch. 3 T he Improvement of Real Landscape' -- The influence of Nathaniel Kent -- Woodland management -- Hedgerow trees and pollards -- Court connections -- ch. 4 T he Great Guns of Taste' -- The picturesque -- Publishing The Landscape and the Essay -- Reception of Essay on the Picturesque -- Price and Repton -- 1796 and 1798 editions: hat good fun it is to be an author' -- ch. 5 Picturesque Designs -- Aberystwyth -- A picturesque experiment: John Nash and Castle House -- Living the picturesque -- The marine picturesque -- Aspects of Coleorton -- ch. 6 Property and Landscape -- Invasion and defence -- Tourists at Foxley -- Social life in town -- Country life and politics -- Domestic life at Foxley -- Charles James Fox -- ch. 7 M r Price the Picturesque' -- Dialogue -- Picturesque propagation -- Connoisseurship and public service -- Landscaping at Foxley, Coleorton and elsewhere -- Complete essays 1810 -- ch. 8 D istant Paths of Leafy Secretness' -- Wordsworth -- Illness and humour -- Memorials and gardens -- A susceptibility to poetical impressions. Subjects; Price, Uvedale Sir 1747-1829. Landscape architects Great Britain. Biography. Foxley Manor House.