Extracts from the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty / by the Revd. William Gilpin ; transcribed for my own use by me Thos. Pattenden Dover, 1796. [1796-1820]

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Extracts from the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty / by the Revd. William Gilpin ; transcribed for my own use by me Thos. Pattenden Dover, 1796. [1796-1820]

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Manuscript copy of Gilpin's Remarks on forest scenery (London, 1791) by Thomas Pattenden. Includes 12 oval watercolor or ink-wash drawings and one double-page watercolor map, copied from Gilpin's originals. A later owner of the manuscript has made further relevant additions. William Neales, who signed and dated the front pastedown (13 January 1820) has copied six and a half pages of descriptive matter on trees from William Withering's A botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain.

[8], 236, [8] leaves of plates : [12] ill., [1] map ; 23 cm.

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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Pattenden, Thomas.

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Gilpin, William, 1724-1804

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British landscape draftsman and author, and Anglican divine. From the description of Letter : Vicar's Hill, to Henry Harnett, Spithead, 1800 Oct. 20. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81666090 ...

Neales, William.

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Withering, William, 1741-1799

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William Withering, botanist and physician, is credited with the introduction of digitalis into the practice of medicine. Withering was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England in 1741. He followed in the medical footsteps of his father who was an apothecary-surgeon. Withering received his degree in 1766 from the University of Edinburgh. Withering published 19 articles during his lifetime. After fighting a long battle with tuberculosis, he died on 6 October 1799, at the age of 58. Dig...