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Paperback / softback. New.

Wentworth Press, 2016-08-26. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardback. New.

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: J.C Stadler, to be sold by Boydell & Co., and others, 1825. Folio. (21 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches). Emblematic frontispiece hand-coloured, 1 hand-coloured plan, 7 aquatint plates (one tinted with a sepia wash, six hand-coloured [one with an overpage, one double-page with two overslips, one folding with two overslips, one single-page with two overslips, one single-page with one overslip]), 11 aquatint illustrations (seven uncoloured, one with a sepia wash, three hand-coloured [two of these with a single overslip]), all by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Half blue morocco, cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Original wrapper title preserved on front pastedown. Spine lettered gilt. Repton's fascinating proposal for a royal palace at Brighton. 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… Read More

London: Printed for J. C. Stadler and sold by Boydell & Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, [etc.], 1808. Folio. (21 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches). Emblematic frontispiece printed in bistre, 1 hand-coloured plan, 7 aquatint plates (one tinted with a sepia wash, six hand-coloured [one with an overpage, one double-page with two overslips, one folding with two overslips, one single-page with two overslips, one single-page with one overslip]), 11 aquatint illustrations (seven uncoloured, one with a sepia wash, three hand-coloured [two of these with a single overslip]), all by J.C. Stadler after Repton. Publisher's grey paper boards, tan paper spine with printed paper label entirely uncut. Housed within blue morocco backed cloth box. First edition of a superb, wide-margined copy of Repton's fascinating proposal for a Royal Palace at Brighton. 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… Read More