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 274mm). Half-title. 43 plates (one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 24 hand-coloured aquatints [3 double page, 10 with overslips], 5 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [3 with overslips]), 27 illustrations (9 aquatint [2 with overslips], 18 wood-engraved). (Overslip on the first double-page plate slightly creased.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance : Sir George Staunton (1781-1859, armorial bookplate). 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.
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 274mm). Half-title. 43 plates (one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 24 hand-coloured aquatints [3 double page, 10 with overslips], 5 tinted aquatints [one with overslips], 13 aquatints [3 with overslips]), 27 illustrations (9 aquatint [2 with overslips], 18 wood-engraved). (Overslip on the first double-page plate slightly creased.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance : Sir George Staunton (1781-1859, armorial bookplate). 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.
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