REPTON, Humphry.  Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.  Including Some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London: T. Bensley for J, Taylor, 1803. 4° (334 x 272mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Shelley after W. Moll, 23 aquatint, mezzotint and engraved plates, 11 hand-coloured, 11 with overlays, one double-page, one folding, 4 plans, one hand-coloured, illustrations and vignettes, 2 with overlays. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (rebacked in old style). Provenance: Charles Beckford Long (armorial bookplate); Brent Gration-Maxfield (signature dated 1975 and pencil annotation to front free endpapers collating the copy as complete). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 390; Archer 279.1: "... perhaps [Repton's] most significant and influential publication overall."
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REPTON, Humphry. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London: T. Bensley for J, Taylor, 1803. 4° (334 x 272mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Shelley after W. Moll, 23 aquatint, mezzotint and engraved plates, 11 hand-coloured, 11 with overlays, one double-page, one folding, 4 plans, one hand-coloured, illustrations and vignettes, 2 with overlays. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (rebacked in old style). Provenance: Charles Beckford Long (armorial bookplate); Brent Gration-Maxfield (signature dated 1975 and pencil annotation to front free endpapers collating the copy as complete). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 390; Archer 279.1: "... perhaps [Repton's] most significant and influential publication overall."

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REPTON, Humphry. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London: T. Bensley for J, Taylor, 1803. 4° (334 x 272mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Shelley after W. Moll, 23 aquatint, mezzotint and engraved plates, 11 hand-coloured, 11 with overlays, one double-page, one folding, 4 plans, one hand-coloured, illustrations and vignettes, 2 with overlays. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (rebacked in old style). Provenance: Charles Beckford Long (armorial bookplate); Brent Gration-Maxfield (signature dated 1975 and pencil annotation to front free endpapers collating the copy as complete). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 390; Archer 279.1: "... perhaps [Repton's] most significant and influential publication overall."
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