Repton, Humphry

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 USD

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Description

Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening... London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803
contemporary calf brown, wood-engraved illustration, gilt spine

Folio (12 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.; 326 x 265 mm.), stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, dedication leaf, 27 aquatint plates, maps and plans (13 colored by hand, 12 with overslips, one doublepage and one folding), aquatint vignettes in the text, two with overslips, other illustrations in the text; first leaves browned, dampstain on portrait and 2 other plates, foxing and offsetting, folding plate torn. Contemporary half brown calf with corners, gilt spine; rubbed.

Provenance

Maldwin Drummond (bookplate "Ex Libris Marshall Field")

Literature

Abbey, Scenery 390

Catalogue Note

First edition, rare, complete with all the overslips.

The Observations is the second book published by Repton on landscape gardening. The ingenious device of overslips (showing before and after scenes) is used to great effect.