REPTON, Humphry, Sir. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton ... A New Edition ... with an Historical and Scientific Introduction ... by J.C. Loudon . London: Printed for the Editor, 1840.
REPTON, Humphry, Sir. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton ... A New Edition ... with an Historical and Scientific Introduction ... by J.C. Loudon . London: Printed for the Editor, 1840. 8 o (207 x 138 mm). Engraved portrait of Repton by Hall after S. Shelley, HAND-COLORED engravings including one with moveable slide, 4-page author's advertisements (occasional light spotting). Modern green morocco. Provenance: Institute of Park Administration Incorporated (inkstamp on front flyleaf). A RARE COLORED COPY OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Intended as the first in a series of five works reprinting all the best books on landscape gardening, Loudon collected here Repton's 5 major works on the subject: Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening , Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening , An Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening , Designs for the Pavilion at Brigton and Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening . No further volumes of Loudon's proposed series followed. Archer 278.1; RIBA 2733.
REPTON, Humphry, Sir. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton ... A New Edition ... with an Historical and Scientific Introduction ... by J.C. Loudon . London: Printed for the Editor, 1840.
REPTON, Humphry, Sir. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton ... A New Edition ... with an Historical and Scientific Introduction ... by J.C. Loudon . London: Printed for the Editor, 1840. 8 o (207 x 138 mm). Engraved portrait of Repton by Hall after S. Shelley, HAND-COLORED engravings including one with moveable slide, 4-page author's advertisements (occasional light spotting). Modern green morocco. Provenance: Institute of Park Administration Incorporated (inkstamp on front flyleaf). A RARE COLORED COPY OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Intended as the first in a series of five works reprinting all the best books on landscape gardening, Loudon collected here Repton's 5 major works on the subject: Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening , Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening , An Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening , Designs for the Pavilion at Brigton and Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening . No further volumes of Loudon's proposed series followed. Archer 278.1; RIBA 2733.
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