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REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818). Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1805.
4° (342 x 275mm). Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Holl after S. Shelley, 27 plates consisting of 22 aquatints, one double-page and one folding, 15 coloured or tinted by hand, 12 with overslips, and 5 etchings and line engravings. Aquatint and wood-engraved illustrations, 2 with overslips. (Occasional dust-soiling at margins.) Contemporary marbled tree calf, marbled endpapers (lightly scuffed, old joint and corner repairs). Provenance: Westport House (bookplate) – Jasper More (bookplate).
SECOND EDITION. The Observations, first published in 1803, was the second of Repton’s three books on landscape gardening. Although his career as a landscape gardener only started in 1788, the author had been called upon to give his opinion on 200 estates by the time of publication (see p. 6 of the preface). His ingenious device of overslips or 'slides' to show before and after scenes on an improved estate is used to great effect. Henrey (II, 546) describes his publications, 'chiefly compiled from the author's "Red Books,"' as being 'important as records of Repton's work and views as a landscape gardener. But they are also among the finest examples of books to appear in this country illustrated by the aquatint process.' Henrey III, 1268; cf. Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley 399.
4° (342 x 275mm). Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Holl after S. Shelley, 27 plates consisting of 22 aquatints, one double-page and one folding, 15 coloured or tinted by hand, 12 with overslips, and 5 etchings and line engravings. Aquatint and wood-engraved illustrations, 2 with overslips. (Occasional dust-soiling at margins.) Contemporary marbled tree calf, marbled endpapers (lightly scuffed, old joint and corner repairs). Provenance: Westport House (bookplate) – Jasper More (bookplate).
SECOND EDITION. The Observations, first published in 1803, was the second of Repton’s three books on landscape gardening. Although his career as a landscape gardener only started in 1788, the author had been called upon to give his opinion on 200 estates by the time of publication (see p. 6 of the preface). His ingenious device of overslips or 'slides' to show before and after scenes on an improved estate is used to great effect. Henrey (II, 546) describes his publications, 'chiefly compiled from the author's "Red Books,"' as being 'important as records of Repton's work and views as a landscape gardener. But they are also among the finest examples of books to appear in this country illustrated by the aquatint process.' Henrey III, 1268; cf. Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley 399.
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