Sketches and hints on landscape gardening : collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground / by H. Repton, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--Early works to 1800.

Landscape architecture.

Landscape architecture--England--Early works to 1800.

Landscape gardening--Early works to 1800.

Landscape gardening.

Landscape gardening--England--Early works to 1800.

Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829. Essay on the picturesque.

Price, Uvedale.

England.

Penn Provenance:

Hunt, John Dixon (donor)

Physical Description:

xvi, 83 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 x 38 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Connaissance et memoires, 2006.

Notes:

"This edition is limited to 700 copies numbered 001 to 700"--Verso of half-title.

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office, and sold by J. and J. Boydell ... and by G. Nicol ... , [1794].

Date of original from "Dedication."

Fourteen of the plates have foldout or inserted parts designed to give a view of the landscape before and after "improvements"; four of the plates are double.

The work concludes with an appendix containing commentary on Uvedale Price's thesis in his Essay on the Picturesque : with the sublime and the beautiful, and, on the use of studying pictures for the purpose of improving real landscapes (London, 1794). Included is a copy of a detailed letter sent to Price on receipt of a copy of the publication. In the commentary are 16 "Sources of pleasure in landscape gardening" to support his own theories.

Local Notes:

Fisher Fine Arts Library has copy no. 91, presented by John Dixon Hunt in 2007.

ISBN:

2914473419

9782914473415

OCLC:

85886209