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REPTON, Humphry. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. London: W.Bulmer and Co. for J. and J.Boydell for G.Nicol, [ watermarked 1794].
Oblong 2° (259 x 360mm.). Half-title, 16 aquatint plates (six with tinted borders (three with overslips), ten hand-coloured with overslips (four double page)), 3 woodcut illustrations (some overslips slightly creased, small tears in one double page plate, one word carefully scratched out from the first line of the note on p.51). Contemporary blue half morocco (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down), modern cloth box. Provenance: Rosslyn of Dysart, Flintshire (bookplate and crown on spine).
FIRST EDITION. The DNB notes that only 250 copies of this work were printed. Abbey Scenery 388; Henrey 1269; Tooley 400.
Oblong 2° (259 x 360mm.). Half-title, 16 aquatint plates (six with tinted borders (three with overslips), ten hand-coloured with overslips (four double page)), 3 woodcut illustrations (some overslips slightly creased, small tears in one double page plate, one word carefully scratched out from the first line of the note on p.51). Contemporary blue half morocco (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down), modern cloth box. Provenance: Rosslyn of Dysart, Flintshire (bookplate and crown on spine).
FIRST EDITION. The DNB notes that only 250 copies of this work were printed. Abbey Scenery 388; Henrey 1269; Tooley 400.