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REPTON, Humphrey (1752-1818) & 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 & Son for J.Taylor, 1816. 4° (336 x 276mm). Half-title. 43 plates (one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 22 hand-coloured aquatints [4 double page, 10 with overslips], 7 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [3 with overslips]), 29 illustrations (9 aquatint [2 with overslips], 20 wood-engraved). (Three overslips slightly creased, small repaired marginal tears to two plates, paperfault hole in plate facing page 136, outer and lower marginas of text leaf X2 shaved.) Modern olive-grren morocco gilt, covers with decorative borders of fillets and cornerpieces of styllised flowers and foliage oulined in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat pattern of leaves and gilt rules enclosing a large central flower-head tool, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt (slight scuffing to upper cover and lower edges of boards. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy of Repton's final great work on landscape gardening. In the introduction he 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.