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REPTON, Humphry and John Adey REPTON (1775-1860). Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture. London: T. Bensley and Son for J. Taylor, 1816.
First edition of Repton's final great work on landscape gardening. In the introduction Repton bemoans the effect of the Napoleonic war on landscape gardening (financial rather than physical) and defines the subject as: 'the pleasing combination of Art and Nature adapted to the use of Man.' Abbey Scenery 391; Tooley 398.
Quarto (336 x 276 mm). Half-title. 43 plates, comprising: one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 21 hand-coloured aquatints [of which 2 double page, 8 with overslips], 6 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [2 with overslips]; 27 text-illustrations, comprising: 9 aquatints [2 with overslips], 18 wood-engravings (short marginal tear to text leaf 2B1, occasional insignificant soiling mainly confined to margins). Contemporary half russia (rebacked and repaired preserving original gilt spine, spine rubbed with a few minor losses). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet (gilt arms on covers).
First edition of Repton's final great work on landscape gardening. In the introduction Repton bemoans the effect of the Napoleonic war on landscape gardening (financial rather than physical) and defines the subject as: 'the pleasing combination of Art and Nature adapted to the use of Man.' Abbey Scenery 391; Tooley 398.
Quarto (336 x 276 mm). Half-title. 43 plates, comprising: one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 21 hand-coloured aquatints [of which 2 double page, 8 with overslips], 6 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [2 with overslips]; 27 text-illustrations, comprising: 9 aquatints [2 with overslips], 18 wood-engravings (short marginal tear to text leaf 2B1, occasional insignificant soiling mainly confined to margins). Contemporary half russia (rebacked and repaired preserving original gilt spine, spine rubbed with a few minor losses). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet (gilt arms on covers).
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