INTEODUCTION. IX 



The first publication (in London) of the most 

 famous of Gilpin's works, under tlie title of ' Re- 

 marks on Forest Scenery and otlier "Woodland 

 Views (relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty),' 

 took place in 1791. But Gilpin informs us that 

 he had written the manuscript of this work ten 

 years before that date. It was ' printed for R. 

 Blamire, Strand.' A Second Edition, by the same 

 publisher, appeared in 1794. Gilpin died in 1804, 

 but a Third Edition of the ' Forest Scenery ' ap- 

 peared in 1808, and the publishers of this edition 

 were T. Cadell and W. Davies, of the Strand. 



Twenty-six years afterwards, namely, in 1834, 

 a New Edition, with notes, was published by Sir 

 Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. But, by a strange 

 inadvertence, this Edition was printed fi'om the 

 text of the original Edition of 1791, and the 

 Editor was, evidently, unaware that Gilpin had 

 thoroughly revised the first issue, and had made 

 important alterations in and additions to the work, 

 most of which appeared in the Second Edition of 

 1794. Though he died four years before the pub- 

 lication of the Third Edition, he had made some 

 alterations in the work subsequently to 1794, and 



