Lot 120: REPTON, Humphry (1752-1818) & 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, Humphry (1752-1818) & 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 272mm). 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 overslips], 13 aquatints [3 with overslips]), 29 illustrations (9 aquatint [2 with overslips], 20 wood-engraved). (Occasional faint spotting.) Contemporary diced russia, gilt spine, marbled edges (spine lightly sunned, minor scuffing). Provenance: The Earl Ferrers, April 21, 1818 (flyleaf signature).

FIRST EDITION of Repton's final great work on landscape gardening. In the introduction he 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; RIBA 2732; Tooley 398.

PALMER, Charles John (1805-1882).
Est. £5,000 - £8,000
($8,050 - $12,880)