On landscape gardening with plates & overslips, 1803, from Säfstaholm

Humphry Repton:

Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture.

London 1803. 33,4 x 27,5 cms. 16 + 224 pp. + lithographed frontispiece portrait + 27 engraved or aquatint plates (including 12 hand-coloured, 3 tinted, 12 with overslips, 1 coloured folding, 1 double-page. With numerous engraved, wood-engraved or aquatint vignettes and illustrations, 2 with overslips. (A total of 14 overslips, one loose.)

Contemporary leather-backed boards, worn. Bookplate ”Säfstaholms bibliothek” and monogram ”GTB” for Gustaf Trolle Bonde on spine. Some very light browning or offsetting, large folding plate ”General view of Bayham” torn, double-page plate ”Asthon-Court” with short marginal tear along foot of central fold.

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