1884 Picturesque Ireland by John Savage Antiquarian Irish History Book

1884 Picturesque Ireland by John Savage Antiquarian Irish History Book

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Picturesque Ireland by John Savage - 1884 - Antique Irish History Book

Picturesque Ireland: A Literary And Artistic Delineation

Edited by John Savage

Published by Samuel McCardel: Melbourne 1884


" Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty". Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century.

The term "picturesque" needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: the beautiful and the sublime. By the last third of the 18th century, Enlightenment and rationalist ideas about aesthetics were being challenged by looking at the experiences of beauty and sublimity as non-rational. Aesthetic experience was not just a rational decision - one did not look at a pleasing curved form and decide it was beautiful; rather it came naturally as a matter of basic human instinct. Edmund Burke in his 1757, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, argued that the soft gentle curves appealed to the male sexual desire, while the sublime horrors appealed to our desires for self-preservation. Picturesque arose as a mediator between these opposed ideals of beauty and the sublime, showing the possibilities that existed between these two rationally idealised states."

General wear to cover and spine as shown with heavier fading on the back cover. No inscriptions or library marks. Some foxing present mainly to the plates with examples shown. Pages have a pleasant aged patina. A nice clean copy that presents very well. The list of illustrations stretches over 12 pages so it's simply not practical to check off every one however on a spot check I was able to identify all plates selected - note that some of the maps are present but not located in the numbered position as indicated in the index. Good condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.

Size 28cm x 23cm x 6cm

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Condition: Good
Binding: Leather
Special Attributes: ["Illustrated", "Gilt Edged", "Maps"]
Region: Europe
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Seller Notes: General wear to cover and spine as shown with heavier fading on the back cover. No inscriptions or library marks. Some foxing present mainly to the plates with examples shown. Pages have a pleasant aged patina. A nice clean copy that presents very well. The list of illustrations stretches over 12 pages so it's simply not practical to check off every one however on a spot check I was able to identify all plates selected - note that some of the maps are present but not located in the numbered position as indicated in the index. Good condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.
Language: English
Author: John Savage
Publisher: Samuel McCardel: Melbourne
Year Printed: 1884
Sub-subject: Ireland