A description of the principal picturesque beauties, antiquities, and geological phoenomena, of the Isle of Wight
A description of the principal picturesque beauties, antiquities and geological phenomena of the Isle of Wight is a 1816 illustrated travel and geology guide by Henry Charles Englefield, Thomas Webster and W. Cooke, printed by William Bulmer and Co. for Payne and Foss, aimed at picturesque tourists and natural history readers. Its plates are plain engravings, shown here rotated on the page, of steep chalk cliffs, rock strata and tilted layers along the coast, drawn with soft tonal hatching that a designer could use for studies of geological form, eroded stone and dramatic landscape composition.
