
Lot 82•
REPTON (HUMPHRY AND J. ADEY) Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, FIRST EDITION, T. Bensley & Son for J. Taylor, 1816
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,750 inc. premium
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REPTON (HUMPHRY AND J. ADEY)
Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 43 plates, comprising one uncoloured woodcut, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (10 with overslips), 20 plain or tinted aquatint plates (4 with overslips), 9 aquatint vignettes in the text (2 with overslips), without half-title, some light spotting and soiling, occasional offsetting, contemporary speckled calf gilt, rebacked preserving original gilt panelled spine [Abbey Scenery 391; Tooley 398], 4to (336 x 270mm.), T. Bensley & Son for J. Taylor, 1816
Footnotes
The first edition of Repton's last great work on landscape gardening, completed with the aid of his architect son.
Provenance: Sir James Carnegie of Southesk Bart.; Donald & Mary Hyde, bookplates.