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4:00 AM PT - Mar 25th, 2009
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Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening. Collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen for whose use they were originally made..., first edition, half-title, 16 aquatint plates of which 10 hand-coloured with overlays (3 double-page, 1 folding, 4 plates with 2 overlays) and 6 uncoloured (4 with overlays, the other two touched up with partial tinting or colouring), wood-engraved tail-piece, light spotting to text but plates generally clean, engraved bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey of Wrest Park on front pastedown, contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, by J.Mackenzie & Son, g.e., [Abbey Scenery 388; Henrey 1269], oblong folio, by W.Bulmer & Co. for J. & J.Boydell and G.Nicol, [1794].***The author's first book and, according to an old cataloguing slip tipped in at beginning, one of 250 copies. The work was compiled from his famous 'Red Books' which were drawn up for prospective clients and included watercolours with overlays showing before and after scenes. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, was the home of the de Grey family and many important architects and designers worked there including Giacomo Leoni, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Thomas Archer, Batty Langley, James Gibbs and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. In 1834 Thomas de Grey rebuilt the house in Louis XV style, laying out formal French and Italian gardens.. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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