Excerpt from Sir Uvedale Price on the Picturesque: With an Essay on the Origin of Taste, and Much Original Matter As the general plan and intention of my first publication have been a good deal misunderstood, I wish to give a short account of them both. The title itself might have shown that I aimed at something more than a mere book of gardening; some, however, have conceived that I ought to have begun by setting forth all my ideas of lawns, shrubberies, gravel-walks, &c. And as my arrangement did not coincide with their notions of what it ought to have been, they seem to have concluded that I had no plan at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.