The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq. : being his entire works on these subjects.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.

Contributor:

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843.

Longman & Co., bookseller.

Adam and Charles Black (Firm), bookseller.

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape gardening.

Architecture, Domestic.

Landscape architecture.

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (Donor) (Forrest Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi pages, i unnumbered page, 619 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait), plans ; 23 cm

Edition:

A new edition: with an historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and a copious alphabetical index / by J.C. Loudon ... Originally published in one folio and three quarto volumes, and now comprised in one volume octavo ; Illustrated by upwards of two hundred and fifty engravings.

Other Title:

Repton's landscape gardening and landscape architecture

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman & Co. and A. & C. Black, Edinburgh, 1840.

Notes:

From half-title: Repton's landscape gardening and landscape architecture.

With a frontis portrait of Humphry Repton Esq.

Includes index.

Issued "plain" and "coloured": "The coloured copies we consider as exquisitely beautiful and particularly those which have been done at Bayswater under our own inspection." Cf. Loudon.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Fine Arts Library copy has colored plates.

Fine Arts Library copy bound in full light brown calf; boards gold-tooled with double line fillets; five raised bands on spine; spine panels gold-tooled with floral motifs; brief title stamped in gilt on a black leather in second spine panel; place and date of imprint stamped in gilt at base of spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt;

Fine Arts Library copy spine rebacked and repaired with binder's tape at hinges.

Cited in:

Longman. A Catalogue of Works in All Departments of English Literature (2nd ed.), 68

Loudon, J. C. The gardener's magazine, and register of rural & domestic improvement, vol. XVI, 262

OCLC:

82615664