Price Esq., Uvedale. A Letter to H. Repton, Esq. On the application of the practice as well as the principles of Landscape-Painting to Landscape-Gardening. 2nd. Ed. Pub. J. Robson (Hereford). 1798
pp.viii, 180. 8vo. More recently, handsomely bound in full calf leather with gilt lettering to spine, raised bands and blind-tooled decoration (to both the spine and boards). Contents very clean with one professional repair to page 85. Overall nr. fine. A super copy.
The approaches of Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton to landscape gardening proved to be at odds to the approach of Richard Payne Knight and Sir Uvedale Price. Publications by Knight and Price condemned the work of Brown and Repton. There then followed a series of publications by Repton, Price and Knight in which they defended themselves and attacked each other. A Letter to H. Repton, Esq is one such of these works, and helps greatly in understanding the history and development of landscape gardening.
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