Excerpt from Three Essays
An Apology may be necessary for presenting a new Edition of a Work, in a more enlarged form than the one in which it was published by its author. But the two Essays which are added to the present re-publication, tho written by him for a particular purpose, contain so much general precept on the art of drawing, and are in themselves so natural an appendage to the three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, &c. that the Editors conceive they are only forwarding the wishes of the author, and presenting a more connected view of his valuable instruction, already before the public, by bringing them forward in their present shape.
In the year 1802, and in a subsequent one, Mr. Gilpin prepared a number of drawings for sale, the produce of his own pencil, for the endowment of a school for the benefit of the day-labouring part of the parishioners of Boldre, and affixed the two Essays to the sale catalogues, for which they were particularly written. It is to these sales that remarks in the Essays so frequently refer.
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