Repton humphrey (4 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (35 x 28 cm.) pp. xii+238+[1, list of plates and errata].Bound by Carrs of Glasgow with their ticket in blind and gilt-stamped black morocco, pink endpapers, a.e.g. Complete with all 53 illustrations by H. Repton as called for in the List of Plates (Abbey calls for 43 plates) comprising: 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, of which 3 double-page, and also of which 10 with overslips (1 plate with 2 overslips, for a grand total of 11 overslips); 5 tinted aquatint plates, of which 1 with an overslip; 13 uncoloured aquatint plates, of which 3 with overslips; 9 uncoloured aquatint vignettes, of which 2 with overslips; 2 wood-engraved vignettes. An additional full-page uncoloured wood-engraved plan (of Longleat, not called for) is present at p.122, as usual. The full page colour plate of The Work House at p.227 supplied from another copy. Numerous woodcuts in the text not listed. Extremities of binding lightly rubbed, occasional trivial blemish to contents, generally a very good copy in a handsome binding. First edition of Repton's last treatise on landscape gardening, written together with his architect son. Fragments is illustrated in the familiar Repton manner, with overslips used to show the changed landscape before and after his improvements. (Abbey Scenery, 391; Tooley, 398).…

12mo, pp. viii, [iv], 297, [1] blank, [1] errata; complete with half title; first leaf of text badly torn but without loss; an uncut copy, in contemporary pasteboards, with new calf spine, and one new free endpaper. First and only edition. This collection of 33 essays was, as the preface says, originally intended as a periodical work, but when it was submitted to the booksellers the authors were informed that this was not the way to publish it, because immediately on publication each essay would be 'hash'd, or minc'd, if not served up entire, in the daily papers like a Maintenon Cutlet'. The book is largely by Humphrey Repton (1752-1818), later to find fame as a landscape gardener and influential taste-maker at this time, he was still ambitious to be known as a literary writer, and among the other contributors was Anna Seward. One of her essays is number 25, 'On the Clarissa of Richardson and Fielding's Tom Jones': this seems to have been written to counter an essay in Richard Cumberland's Observer, which she felt exalted Tom Jones over Clarissa, even though 'men eminent for piety, wisdom, and virtue have recommended Richardson's Clarissa from the pulpit'. Provenance. Early inscription on half title of Tho. Beck. …

First edition. First edition. 16, 222, [2]pp. Stipple-engraved portrait of the author by W. Holl after S. Shelley and 27 engraved or aquatint plates (including 12 hand-coloured, 12 with overslips, 1 folding, 1 double-page), numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations (including 2 with overslips). Uncut. 1 vols. 4to (14 x 11-3/8 inches). Rejecting the formalism of his predecessor Lancelot Brown, Repton adopted a more natural and varied style of ornamentation which has been described as combining "artistical knowledge.with good taste and good sense." Compiled chiefly from the his Red Books -- bespoke manuscript productions produced for each client with watercolor drawings of the ground with his proposed altertations as overalys -- and illustrated with facsimiles of his original sketches, Repton's Observations is important as a record of his work and his views as a landscape gardener. No man did more to change the shape of the English countryside. Extraordinarily rare in the original boards. Abbey Scenery 390; Tooley, p. 209; Henrey I, p. 546 Original pink paper boards, upper board lettered and with a wide Greek key border, expertly rebacked and retipped to style. Repair at fore-edge of the frontispiece portrait 16, 222, [2]pp. Stipple-engraved portrait of the author by W. Holl after S. Shelley and 27 engraved or aquatint plates (including 12 hand-coloured, 12 with overslips, 1 folding, 1 double-page), numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations (including 2 with overslips). Uncut. 1 vols. 4to (14 x 11-3/8 inches).…

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.…