Books by Uvedale Price

An Essay on the Picturesque - as compared with the sublime and the beautiful - and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purpose of improving real landscape is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1796.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Frustrated by what he saw as the over-grooming prevalent in British landscape gardening and associated with the work of Capability Brown, Uvedale Price (1747-1829) published this essay in 1794. He emphasises here the importance of naturalism and harmony with the surrounding environment.

In 1795, the landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752-1818) published a letter addressed to Uvedale Price (1747-1829) which disputed some of the points in Price's 1794 essay on the connection between landscape painting and landscape gardening. This 1798 second edition of Price's reply includes Repton's letter.