Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: . including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written: the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts by H. Repton.
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818)
Category
Books
Date
1805
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3150997
Summary
Bibliographic description
16, 222, [2] p., [41] leaves of plates. ill., port.. 4to. Binding: Early twentieth-century full red straight-grained morocco over boards; gilt and blind fillets and tools to form a border; gilt inner border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven [presumably Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896-1966), of Anglesey Abbey]; gilt-panelled spine; gilt spine title 'Landscape gardening. Repton'; sewn on five raised bands
Makers and roles
Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818)