ODD WHIMS AND MISCELLANIES. By Humphrey Repton, Esq. (Volume 1 only). by Repton, Humphrey - 1804.

UK trade paperback reprint, 2012 Forgotten Books.The book is in fine condition with no creasing to the spine or covers. Illustrated.

Boston: Houghton Miffliin, 1907. Ex-library, 7" x 9", original edition; covers are good to good+(wear to corner tips, spine label soiled and overall wear; pockets and slips roughly removed) closed text side shows signs of being opened; text is good to good+; stamps are in page margins - overall light wear and use; text and illustrations are clear; XXIII, 252 pgs, with XXII plates of which plates 42 and 46 are missing; 28 diagrams within the text; some overlays illustrating before and after; 1lb 12 oz

Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1907. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in red cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper spine label, numerous figures & all 22 plates present, many with before/after overlays, no markings. 252 pages, tissue-guarded color frontispiece with overlay. 28 diagrams within the text. Designed by Bruce Rogers, second spine label laid in at rear. Record # 383871

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates, Illustrations In Text. Xii, 252 Pp. Brown Cloth Spine With Paper Label; Boards. First Printing, 1907 Of This High Quality Reprint, Probably The First American Edition. Light Usage, Slight Damp Staining To Spine Label, Former Owners' Names Dated 1914 And 1952.

Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The book is in very good condition, some very mild shelfwear; wrapper is unevenly faded with some shelfwear and a 15mm closed tear to top edge..

Garland Pub., . First Edition Thus, Facsimile. Hardcover. Very Good Solid Copy, Hardcover, Usual Markings Except Not At The Cover Spine, This Copy Is from The Garden Center Of Greater Cleveland Botanic the Eleanor Squire Library. Quarto, Green Decorated Cloth, Gilt Lettered. 1982 B & W Plates, Some Fold Out Quarto, Green Decorated Cloth, Gilt Lettered, , PP.238, A Classic Text Printed On 250 Year Acid Free Paper D20i

1980. REPTON, Humphrey. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. [Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1980]. 4to. Facsimile of the 1802 ed. [10],222,[2]pp. Portrait frontis., illus., plates. Orig. period-style speckled calf-backed cloth, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, brown morocco spine label, marbled boards, T.e.g., housed in cloth slipcase. Fine. Tooley 399. One of 443 numbered copies. Repton was the successor to "Capability" Brown as the architect of the grounds and gardens of the late 18th century British gentry. He was known for his making watercolor drawings of his proposals of the grounds he proposed to improve for his clients.

Longman & Co., 1840. Loudon Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. Good Solid Copy, Brown Cloth Rebacked With Original Spine Label Retained, Wear At Fore Edges, Contents Solid And Clean Except At Fore Edge Black Ink Stain At several pages Upper Corner, Ex. Library New York Botanic Garden And Garden Center Of Greater Cleveland. Sm Quarto, Embossed Cloth Covers. 1795, 1803, 1808, 1816 Frontis Engraving Of Repton Dated 1839, Numerous Text Figures And Full Page Uncoloured Engravings Sm Quarto, Embossed Cloth Covers, 1840, PP.xxxi, 619, Collected Repton Writings and Issued Posthumously; Issued in 12 parts ( This volume contains all 12) as the first of Five Volumes planed by LOudon on the Landscape Arts; this volume was the first and only of the five as the Project was abandoned when Loudon Died in 1843, PP.1-22 Are The Biographical Notice Of The Late Humphrey Repton Esq. Added Specially for This Edition, Scarce RB1d

London: Phaidon Press, 1980. Limited edition of 445 copies. Very good. some faint spots on the slipcase. This is copy #401 of an edition of 445. Quarto (10 7/8" x 13 3/8"), bound in quarter mottled calf and brown cloth. Slipcase in brown cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Raised bands with a gilt device in each panel. Dark brown leather title label. 222pp. with frontispiece portrait and 38 plates, including a map and plans. Many plates in color with tissue guards. Folding view in color. Some mechanical. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1803 edition by Britain's first professional landscape gardener.

1976. London: Baselisk Press, 1976. Folio and oblong 8vo.; 4 vols.; attractively bound in quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, housed in original cloth box; a limited and numbered edition of 515 sets, a fine set. A sumptuous facsimile edition comprising the first published edition of the surviving Red Books; Anthony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, with an explanatory volume by Edward Malins containing recent photographs by Eric de Mare. Repton's drawings are meticulously reproduced in collotype and printed on wove paper to imitate, as closely as possible, the original Whatman stock.