In effect the first collected edition of his major work. PRICE, Uvedale. 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. Two volumes. xx, 414pp; xxvii, [1], 432pp. Comprising the revised (and best) edition of volume one, and the first edition of volume two. Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked, black gilt labels. Corners worn, and with new end-papers and paste-downs. One early marginal pencil observation on the text, 8vo. London. J. Robson. 1796 / Hereford. D. Walker. 1798. ~ First volume second edition ‘with considerable additions’; second volume first edition, of Uvedale Price’s highly influential work on landscape design & the picturesque. Its first appearance was as a single volume in 1794, followed by this greatly enlarged edition in 1796 and by the first edition of a second volume in 1798, which also included his Essay on Architecture. This is in effect the first collected edition of his major work.