REPTON, Humphry. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. London: W. Bulmer and Co., for J. & J. Boydell, n.d. [but 1794].
REPTON, Humphry. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. London: W. Bulmer and Co., for J. & J. Boydell, n.d. [but 1794].

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REPTON, Humphry. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. London: W. Bulmer and Co., for J. & J. Boydell, n.d. [but 1794].

Oblong 2o (257 x 351 mm). Half-title. 16 aquatint plates comprising 10 hand-colored plates with overslips (four folding) and 6 monochromatic plates, four with overslips (some marginal dampstaining, occasional light creasing). Contemporary half calf (rebacked preserving original spine, worn). Provenance: Henry Gee Barnard (bookplate); Massachusetts Horticultural Society (printed library rules mounted on pastedown, circular ink stamp on recto of each plate, sometimes touching image; sold Sotheby's New York, 11 December 2008, lot 234).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS GROUND-BREAKING BOOK ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. See previous lot. Abbey Scenery 388; Tooley 210.

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