Repton Humphrey (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. UK trade paperback reprint, 2012 Forgotten Books. The book is in fine condition with no creasing to the spine or covers. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 233 pp. Consul Book 1443. Edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Ken Freeman. This anthology contains: Introduction by August Derleth; Primitives by August Derleth; From a Private Mad House by Humphrey Repton; Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism - Anonymous; Tale of a Chemist - Anonymous; The Last American by J. A. Mitchell; Mid-Period Pieces by August Derleth; Infinity Zero by Donald Wandrei; Frankenstein Unlimited by H. A. Highstone; Open Sesame by August Derleth writing as Stephen Grendon; Tepondicon by Carl Jacobi; The Fear Planet by Robert Bloch; De Produndis by Murray Leinster; Invasion by Frank Belknap Long; Dear Pen Pal by A. E. van Vogt; Time to Rest by John Wyndham writing as John Beynon Harris; An Ounce of Prevention by Paul Carter; The Song of the Pewee by August Derleth writing as Stephen Grendon; The Man Who Rode the Saucer by August Derleth writing as Kenyon Holmes; Later Than You Think by Fritz Leiber; And Lo! the Bird by Nelson Bond; The One Who Waits by Ray Bradbury; Vignettes of Tomorrow by Ray Bradbury; and Holiday by Ray Bradbury. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The book is in very good condition, some very mild shelfwear; wrapper is unevenly faded with some shelfwear and a 15mm closed tear to top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large quarto; page size approx. 34cm x 27.2cm, pp. [1-6], 7-16; 220 (2). The contents therefore run - title page, dedication the the King, advertisement, preface, list of places referred to, followed by the text itself and a two-page index, including list of plates to verso, to the rear. Illustrations all present as follows: portrait frontispiece, 27 plates comprising 11 hand-coloured aquatint plates (9 with overlays and one folding), 14 engraved plates (mostly aquatint, some tinted, 3 with overlays, one double-page) and two engraved maps (one hand-coloured), 11 aquatint vignettes and illustrations in text, 2 with overlays, some illustrations within text. Binding: contemporary full calf, boards a little rubbed, early reback with gilt spine relaid. Elegant armorial bookplate to rear pastedown with the motto Pax et Spes (the motto of the Pease family, adopted by the first Baron Wardington). Bookplate with woodcut to front pastedown with the name Helen Elizabeth Pease, also some notes in pencil and a printed catalogue clipping with a brief description of the book. Occasional light foxing but a clean, most attractive example, with plates and overlays intact. One of the most important of all books on gardening and garden history, still influential today, and a beautiful example of the art of printing. [Abbey Scenery 390].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the last and finest examples of Repton's innovative illustrated "Red Books," combining landscape design, architecture, & bookmaking into a single work of exceptional artistic & historical importance. FIRST Edition, 1808, in half long grain morocco over grey/blue speckled boards, retaining part of the original printed paper label to upper board, gilt title to spine. Internally, title, [4], [1], (ii-x), frontis, [1], 2-41 pp, complete with a total of 20 aquatint plates & vignettes (including coloured plan, 9 hand coloured, 6 with overslips, 1 with overpage, 1 double page, 1 folding, 2 * sepia wash), all by JC Stadler after Repton, small tear o folding plate, slight creasing to edges of some overslips, light water stain to 1 leaf, other minor, mostly marginal soiling, plates & text leaves watermarked J Whatman 1807, plates dated 1808, book label to fpd (EP John WEstby). Housed in a modern quarter calf over green cloth slipcase. (540*369 mm). (Abbey Scenery 57; Tooley 397. Prideaux 349. Bobins 709). Repton's proposal for the pavilion in the Indian style of architecture, originally published in 1808, was not built due to the Prince Regent's financial difficulties at the time, but his ideas were taken up by John Nash who designed the building we know today in 1815. SPEED John 1551/2-162 (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An exceptional & complete copy, of the Rarest of Repton's Landscape books. This copy ENHANCED by the inclusion of the original pen & brush drawing, signed lower right 'H. Repton' 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). [1794]. Oblong, in rebacked quarter paper spine over contemporary blue marbled boards, extremities worn. Internally, additional, signed, original drawing to fpd, half title, [5], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-83 pp, [1], [2] plate list, 16 fine aquatint plates (10 hand coloured and with overslips, including 4 double-page & six uncoloured, all but 2 with overslips), 2 woodcut illustrations in text and 1 printers tailpiece, 1 plate with marginal tear, some foxing, light browning to edges, edges uncut, text leaves watermarked J Whatman. Housed in a custom made 20c half calf over brown cloth, silk lined, clamshell box. (380*285 mm). (Abbey Scenery 388; Tooley 400. Bobins 707). Only 250 copies were printed & Repton refused to issue a second edition although some of the chapters were re-used in 'Observations and Fragments'. Repton 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'. REPTON H. (illustrator).…

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).…

Limited edition of 445 copies. This is copy #401 of an edition of 445. Quarto (10 7/8" x 13 3/8"), bound in quarter mottled calf and brown cloth. Slipcase in brown cloth over boards. Top edge gilt. Raised bands with a gilt device in each panel. Dark brown leather title label. 222pp. with frontispiece portrait and 38 plates, including a map and plans. Many plates in color with tissue guards. Folding view in color. Some mechanical. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1803 edition by Britain's first professional landscape gardener. Very good. some faint spots on the slipcase.…

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. …

REPTON, Humphrey. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. [Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1980]. 4to. Facsimile of the 1802 ed. [10],222,[2]pp. Portrait frontis., illus., plates. Orig. period-style speckled calf-backed cloth, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, brown morocco spine label, marbled boards, T.e.g., housed in cloth slipcase. Fine. Tooley 399. One of 443 numbered copies. Repton was the successor to "Capability" Brown as the architect of the grounds and gardens of the late 18th century British gentry. He was known for his making watercolor drawings of his proposals of the grounds he proposed to improve for his clients.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. green gold cloth facsimile, no markings, some light surface wear, not a print on demand.