Humphry Repton and J. Adey Repton | Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, London, 1816

Humphry Repton and J. Adey Repton

Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. London: T. Bensley and Son, for J. Taylor, 1816 

FIRST EDITION, 4to (344 x 281 mm.), 43 plates and plans, comprising one uncoloured woodcut, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (10 with overslips), 20 plain or tinted aquatint plates (4 with overslips), 9 aquatint vignettes in the text (2 with overslips), plate list (including errata) at end, contemporary diced Russia, marbled edges, some light scattered spotting, otherwise a fine copy

LITERATURE:

Abbey, Scenery 391

PROVENANCE:

Bookplate of Colonel John Bullock of Faulkbourne M.P. (1731-1809)