Lot 269: REPTON, Humphrey (1752-1818) and John Adey REPTON (1775-1860). Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture . London: T. Bensley & Son for J. Taylor, 1816.

REPTON, Humphrey (1752-1818) and John Adey REPTON (1775-1860). Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture. London: T. Bensley & Son for J. Taylor, 1816.

4° (340 x 275mm). Half-title. 43 plates: one wood-engraved and letterpress plan, 22 hand-coloured aquatints [3 double page, 10 with overslips], 7 tinted aquatints [one with overslip], 13 aquatints [3 with overslips]; 29 illustrations: 9 aquatint [2 with overslips], 20 wood-engraved. (Very occasional minor offsetting.) Contemporary red half-morocco, spine gilt in compartments, pink mottled endpapers (extremities rubbed, joints starting). Provenance: George Cornwall Legh (1804-1877, MP for Cheshire North; bookplate and case label).

FIRST EDITION OF REPTON'S FINAL GREAT WORK ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING. A FRESH COPY. In the introduction Repton bemoans the effect of the Napoleonic war on landscape gardening (financial rather than physical) and defines the subject as: 'the pleasing combination of Art and Nature adapted to the use of Man.' Abbey, Scenery, 391; Tooley 398.

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