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Quick Facts on Paratext and Navigation
Bryant’s Lessons in Landscape is not navigable. This may attribute to the books rebinding in 1901. The only component to the book that helps navigate through the lithograph prints are the dates of publication at the bottom of each page and the numbering of plates. If there was any paratexts it has since been removed from the book. The only identifying part of the book is the frontispiece, which lavishly relays the title.
 * No clear navigational guide
 * No paratext
 * Plate numbers
 * Publishing information

The date for the first third of the book was July 1st 1807. The following pages came from the next months in increments of six pages, until November 1st. Then there is a two-page section called the Stenography Graphica. This section is a series of color examples for different times of day and settings. The lithographs proceeded with seven pages from December 1st and one from January 1st. The next prints are from March 1st 1808. The prints toward the end of the book are aquatints that are not dated and come from Joshua Bryant as well as other artists. The plate numbering is, also, inconsistent after March.

Throughout the book each illustration is numbered in the top right hand corner. The only plate missing is plate number 8. There is no publication information for plates 9 through 13 and Joshua Bryant is not the artist of plates 11 through 14. In addition, the last print numbers are out of order. Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape’s life has left him a bit out of order.

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