REPTON, Humphry. 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. 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 (218 x 139 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait of Repton by Hall after S. Shelley (some pale dampstaining), HAND-COLORED engravings including one with moveable slide, 4-page author's advertisements. (A few chips to fore-edges of first few leaves). Modern green morocco gilt. 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 Brighton 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. 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. 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 (218 x 139 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait of Repton by Hall after S. Shelley (some pale dampstaining), HAND-COLORED engravings including one with moveable slide, 4-page author's advertisements. (A few chips to fore-edges of first few leaves). Modern green morocco gilt. 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 Brighton 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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