8vo. viii, 180pp. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting.

An ardent pamphlet, first published in 1795, by landscape designer Sir Uvedale Price (1747-1829), intended both as a supplement to his highly influential An Essay on the Picturesque (1794) and as a public response to his heated debate with landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752-1818).

Price, one of the chief aestheticians of the picturesque movement in landscaping, was particularly contemptuous of the formal garden design popularised by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783). Repton, widely considered Brown's successor, took umbrage with Price and his theories of the sublime and beautiful, publishing Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795), which argued that there existed no connection between the aesthetics of gardening and painting as Price suggested.