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from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made.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 3070779
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 83, [3] p., plates : ill. ; obl. fol. Pencil number "748" on rear pastedown. Pencil note in margin on p. 5, beside reference to Livermere Park: "Suffolk". Provenance: Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century armorial spade shield bookplate (Franks 25986 or 25987): 'Salisbury, Rûg.'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription on title page: " ... Salisbury Rûg 1795". Pencil inscription at foot of text on p. 83: "W. Wyndham". Binding: Late eighteenth-century quarter buff paper, marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; printed paper label on spine.
Makers and roles
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818), author