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London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co., sold by J. & J. Boydell and G. Nicol, 1794. Oblong folio. (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). Half-title. 10 hand-coloured aquatints engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates printed in black with a single tint added (4 with one or more overslips), 2 wood-engraved illustrations, 1 wood-engraved tailpiece. Bound to style in 18th-century half calf, 18th-century marbled paper boards. Spine gilt in 6 ruled compartments, red morocco lettering piece First edition of the first and rarest of Repton's three great works on landscape gardening. One of only 250 copies printed. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his 'Red Books'. These were produced for each individual client and were made up from a manuscript description of his proposed improvements bound with Repton's own… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Printing Office, and sold by J. & J. Boyden, Shakespeare Gallery, and by G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1794. Oblong 4to. (11 1/4 x 15 inches). Half-title, xvi, 83 pp., (3), untrimmed. 10 hand-coloured aquatint engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates, uncoloured (4 with one or more overslips), all as issued together with an original waterclour of a landscape scene portraying Rivenhall Place with 2 overslips, matted. Watercolour dimensions: 8 3/8 x 5 7/16 inches. Original vellum spine over marbled boards, with half green morocco box. Watercolour in a matching half green morocco box. An extraordinary copy of the first and rarest of Repton's great works on landscape gardening, untrimmed in marbled boards; together with an original Repton watercolour of Rivenhall Place. This outstanding copy of Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening is accompanied by an original watercolour drawing… Read More