Search Results: the art of landscape gardening by repton humphry

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. Stamp or mark on the inside cover page. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback / softback. New.

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1907. Hardcover. Good. Solid hardcover. Owner stamps on front fly, else no other writing inside. Cover has wear. No dust jacket. 1907 publication.

Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1907-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, edgewear, and staining/soiling. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardback. New.

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1907. hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 252 pages, illustrations throughout, 2nd spine label in rear, edited by John Nolen and typeface by Bruce Rogers. Edge wear and corner bump, minor rubbing, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Illustrated with 22 black and white plates (of which nine have overlays), 28 text figures, and a colour frontispiece (also with an overlay). Record # 853841

Houghton Mifflin, 1907 Hardcover 1st Printing in red cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper spine label, numerous figures & all 22 plates present & perfect, many with before/after overlays, no markings, NOT ex-lib, softenend spine ends with only slight wear to boards, minor offsetting to endpapers, a Fine exemplary copy of edition designed by Bruce Rogers; 8vo; (xxiii) 252pp illus; tissue-guarded color frontispiece with overlay. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Edited by John Nolen, A.M. Boston and NewYork: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1907 8vo. xxiii,252pp. colour frontispiece and 22 monochrome plates, 28 illustrations. Many of the plates including the colour frontispiece have overlays to illustrate the effects of landscaping. Spine lightly rubbed, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's orange cloth-backed boards. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O]

London: Printed for J.Taylor, 1806., 1806. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., v, [1 leaf], 174. Uncut in original bds.(occasional faint foxing, joints partly split, printed spine label worn, but on the whole a very nice copy). First Edition. Repton, hoped in this unillustrated guide to landscape gardening to reach a larger audience of interested parties of more modest means; his earlier lavishly produced publications catered to an affluent clientele that could afford his professional services. Bound in is a twenty-page 'Catalogue of Modern Books on Architecture.on Sale at J.Taylor's Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn, London, issued circa 1818-20.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: W. Bulmer & Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office and sold by J. and J. Boydell and G. Nicol., [1794]. One of only 250 copies. 16 aquatint plates, comprising 10 coloured aquatint plates with moveable overslips (four folding) and 6 uncoloured or touched up tinted plates, 4 with moveable overslips, all overslips with their original tabs. Half-title and full title page. Oblong folio., contemporary blue straight-grain morocco with gilt roll tool and fillets as a border on both sides, greek key gilt border on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, silk marker. Some very expert repair to spine (which was cleverly replaced to style by James and Stuart Brockman about 20 years ago) and edges of binding, a little shelf wear to bottom edge and some slight rubbing to sides. A very handsome copy. ||Humphry Repton’s first book based primarily on his Red Book of Welbeck, a very prestigious commission from the Duke of Portland, but incorporating examples of his work on other estates to give a rounded… Read More

London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co., sold by J. & J. Boydell and G. Nicol, 1794. Oblong folio. (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). Half-title. 10 hand-coloured aquatints engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates printed in black with a single tint added (4 with one or more overslips), 2 wood-engraved illustrations, 1 wood-engraved tailpiece. Bound to style in 18th-century half calf, 18th-century marbled paper boards. Spine gilt in 6 ruled compartments, red morocco lettering piece First edition of the first and rarest of Repton's three great works on landscape gardening. One of only 250 copies printed. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his 'Red Books'. These were produced for each individual client and were made up from a manuscript description of his proposed improvements bound with Repton's own… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Printing Office, and sold by J. & J. Boyden, Shakespeare Gallery, and by G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1794. Oblong 4to. (11 1/4 x 15 inches). Half-title, xvi, 83 pp., (3), untrimmed. 10 hand-coloured aquatint engravings (1 folding, 3 double-page), each with one or more overslips, and 6 aquatint plates, uncoloured (4 with one or more overslips), all as issued together with an original waterclour of a landscape scene portraying Rivenhall Place with 2 overslips, matted. Watercolour dimensions: 8 3/8 x 5 7/16 inches. Original vellum spine over marbled boards, with half green morocco box. Watercolour in a matching half green morocco box. An extraordinary copy of the first and rarest of Repton's great works on landscape gardening, untrimmed in marbled boards; together with an original Repton watercolour of Rivenhall Place. This outstanding copy of Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening is accompanied by an original watercolour drawing… Read More