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Subject Terms Gardening -- Great Britain -- 19th century.

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1. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton.

Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., port., map, 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : with designs, in various styles of rural embellishment : comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves : interspersed with remarks on various subjects of horticultural improvement : to which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants : adapted to villa grounds, from one perch to a hundred acres in extent.

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Creator:
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 70, [2] p., 20 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

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Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Inventory of a flower garden kept by the Birley family of Lancashire.

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Date:
1821
Physical Description:
1 v. (ca. 80 p., with many blanks) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts