REPTON, Humphrey, J.A. & G.S. Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. London: T.Bensley for J.C.Stadler, to be sold by Boydell and Co. [and others], 1808 [plates watermarked 1807]. 2° (520 x 360mm.). 20 plates and vignettes including the hand-coloured engraved General Ground Plan and 9 hand-coloured aquatints (six with overslips, one with overpage, two folding), one sepia aquatint, the rest uncoloured aquatints, all by Stadler after Repton (small tear to inner margin of final folding plate). Modern half green morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION with the uncoloured frontispiece. 'In 1808, deriving what publicity he could from his disappointed hopes at Brighton in 1806, Repton published through J.C.Stadler Designs for the Pavilion ... The printed version differs from the Red Book, now in the Royal Library, Windsor, in a few minor details. The most interesting of these is the omission of a passage on purple glass windows, which, said Repton... would have the effect of rendering a green landscape apparently a snowscape. This might have appealed to the Prince of Wales's eccentric taste but Repton knew only too well how members of the public would react.' ( Humphrey Repton Landscape Gardener.. , V.& A., 1982). Abbey Scenery 55; Tooley 396.
REPTON, Humphrey, J.A. & G.S. Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton. London: T.Bensley for J.C.Stadler, to be sold by Boydell and Co. [and others], 1808 [plates watermarked 1807]. 2° (520 x 360mm.). 20 plates and vignettes including the hand-coloured engraved General Ground Plan and 9 hand-coloured aquatints (six with overslips, one with overpage, two folding), one sepia aquatint, the rest uncoloured aquatints, all by Stadler after Repton (small tear to inner margin of final folding plate). Modern half green morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION with the uncoloured frontispiece. 'In 1808, deriving what publicity he could from his disappointed hopes at Brighton in 1806, Repton published through J.C.Stadler Designs for the Pavilion ... The printed version differs from the Red Book, now in the Royal Library, Windsor, in a few minor details. The most interesting of these is the omission of a passage on purple glass windows, which, said Repton... would have the effect of rendering a green landscape apparently a snowscape. This might have appealed to the Prince of Wales's eccentric taste but Repton knew only too well how members of the public would react.' ( Humphrey Repton Landscape Gardener.. , V.& A., 1982). Abbey Scenery 55; Tooley 396.
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