Sketches and hints on landscape gardening
Subtitle: collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground
By: by H. Repton, esq
Publisher: Connaissance et memoires
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Landscape architecture; Early works to 1800; Landscape gardening
Notes: "This edition is limited to 700 copies numbered 001 to 700"--P. preceding t.p.

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office, and sold by J. and J. Boydell ... and by G. Nicol ... , [1794].

Date of original from "Dedication."

Fourteen of the plates have foldout or inserted parts designed to give a view of the landscape before and after "improvements"; four of the plates are double.

The work concludes with an appendix containing commentary on Uvedale Price's thesis in his Essay on the Picturesque : with the sublime and the beautiful, and, on the use of studying pictures for the purpose of improving real landscapes (London, 1794). Included is a copy of a detailed letter sent to Price on receipt of a copy of the publication. In the commentary are 16 "Sources of pleasure in landscape gardening" to support his own theories.