Landscape Gardening.- Repton (Humphry) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 27 aquatint or engraved plates (13 hand-coloured, 12 with over-slips, 2 double-page or folding), 32 wood-engraved or aquatint illustrations, 2 with over-slips, frontispiece and a couple of other plates water-stained, occasional spotting and offsetting, contemporary diced and blind-stamped russia, gilt, rebacked preserving original spine (darkened and with new labels), rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery, 390 (1803 edition); Tooley, p. 209], 4to, Printed by T. Bensley...for J. Taylor, 1805.

⁂ This important work contains much information from the author's Red Books (many now lost) and an evaluation of the work of Capability Brown, and his defence against the attacks of Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price.

Provenance: Edward Huth, Wykchurch Park (bookplate); C.F.J. Beausire (bookplate).