Sketches and hints on landscape gardening. : Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground. / By H. Repton, Esq.
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3070777
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 83, [3] p., plates : ill. ; obl. fol. Fore-edge half of front free endpaper torn away. Pencil number "143" and note "Rare" on front pastedown. Bookseller's pencil note on rear pastedown: "C.P. W.G. 4-7-53" [presumably "Collated Perfect"]. Pencil numbers on "Catalogue of those red books …" (pp. [xi]-xii), indicating the pages on which the places are referenced. Manuscript index to the places on rear free endpaper in a nineteenth-century hand. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Binding: Late eighteenth- / nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; blind rolls on boards; gilt fillets on board and spine; sewn onto five recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Repton's Sketches.'.
Makers and roles
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818), author