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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/eae2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f3e2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/fce2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e78bde8b-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f08bde8b-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/eae2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f3e2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/fce2ba85-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e78bde8b-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
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With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/small/da9b3e33-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f08bde8b-6c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
*** An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right \"H. Repton\" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing \"the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host...\"
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that \"the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.\"")
Lot 1
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
Hammer Price: £14,000
Description
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
⁂ An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."
Description
With original drawing.- Repton (Humphry) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, first edition, half-title, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand-coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page and 6 uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), woodcut illustrations and vignette tail-piece, one plate with marginal tear, with an original pen and brush drawing with monochrome wash mounted on front pastedown, some foxing, light browning to edges, uncut in old marbled boards, rebacked, rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, preserved in modern silk-lined brown half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Scenery 388; Tooley 400], oblong folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., [1795].
⁂ An exceptional copy of the rarest of Repton's landscape books. Only 250 copies were printed and Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations' and 'Fragments'.
This copy enhanced by the inclusion of the original drawing, signed lower right "H. Repton" and within the original wash border, of plate VIII showing "the effect of cutting down some chestnut trees in the avenue at Langley [Langley Park, Kent, the seat of Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, M.P.], to let in the hill, richly covered with oaks, and that majestic tree, which steps out before its brethren like the leader of an host..."
Another original drawing for plate 2 from this work (Rivenhall Place) was sold by Christies NY in 2004 for $16,000.
Repton (1752-1818) was the first person to use the term 'Landscape Gardening', explaining in the introduction to this highly important and influential work that "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener."
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