REPTON, Humphrey. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London, by T. Bensley, for J. Taylor, 1803, lge. 4°, FIRST EDITION, stipple-engraved portrait of the author by Holl after Shelley, and 27 engraved or aquatint plates, 12 hand-coloured and 4 tinted, 12 with overslips, 2 double-page, and numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations in text, 2 with overslips (coloured plate of "Bayham" torn at fold), contemporary russia (worn), g.e. [Archer 279.2; Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley 399] | Christie's

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REPTON, Humphrey. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London, by T. Bensley, for J. Taylor, 1803, lge. 4°, FIRST EDITION, stipple-engraved portrait of the author by Holl after Shelley, and 27 engraved or aquatint plates, 12 hand-coloured and 4 tinted, 12 with overslips, 2 double-page, and numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations in text, 2 with overslips (coloured plate of "Bayham" torn at fold), contemporary russia (worn), g.e. [Archer 279.2; Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley 399]

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REPTON, Humphrey. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, London, by T. Bensley, for J. Taylor, 1803, lge. 4°, FIRST EDITION, stipple-engraved portrait of the author by Holl after Shelley, and 27 engraved or aquatint plates, 12 hand-coloured and 4 tinted, 12 with overslips, 2 double-page, and numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations in text, 2 with overslips (coloured plate of "Bayham" torn at fold), contemporary russia (worn), g.e. [Archer 279.2; Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley 399]

"Perhaps [Repton's] most significant and influential publication overall." (Archer p. 714)