Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, &C - William Gilpin

Excerpt from Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, &C: Relatively Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made in the Summer of the Year 1770
Your advice against a subscription, which some persons of rank and eminence did me the honour to propose, I have considered; and am convinced, on weighing the matter, that without ascertaining a little better the difficulties of printing so complicated a work, I should find myself embarrassed by an engagement with the public, and should infallibly injure either my subscribers on one hand; or myself on the other.
I have followed your advice, you see, also in another point; and have made an essay in a smaller work of the same kind; which may enable me the better to ascertain the expences of a larger, if I should, at any time hereafter, be inclined to print it.
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