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REPTON, HUMPHREY. Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening . . . in the Art of Laying Out Ground. 10 hand-colored aquatint engravings (including 1 folding and 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips; 6 aquatint plates printed in black with a single tint added (4 with one of more overslips); 2 wood-engraved illustrations. Oblong folio, original marbled paper boards, professionally and discretely rebacked in brown morocco by a master conservator; few repairs to endpapers; only occasional and very mild toning, foxing, or creasing, otherwise an unusually clean copy with no internal restoration; custom linen clamshell box with paper spine label. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office, 1794
a stunning copy of the first edition of repton's desirable and scarce first work. Repton became England's preeminent landscape designer in the 18th century following the death of Capability Brown and was a pioneer of the cottage style and the Picturesque movement. The images in Sketches and Hints comprise views and descriptions of sixteenth century country estates whose grounds Repton re-designed. Each image was included to demonstrate a particular principle outlined in the featured chapter. The movable overslips are to be lifted to display Repton's improvements. Abbey Scenery, 388; Tooley 400; RIBA III, 405.
