Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818
Title:
Designs for the pavillon at Brighton : humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales / by H. Repton, Esq. ; with the assistance of his sons, J.A. Repton and G.S. Repton, architects.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for J.C. Stadler, No 15, Villiers Street, Strand; and sold by Boydell and Co. Cheapside; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row; White, Fleet Street; Cadell and Davies, Strand; Payne and Mackinlay, Strand; Payne, 86, Pall Mall; Miller, Albermarle Street; and Taylor, Holborn, 1808.

[London] : T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, [1808]
Physical Description:
[4], x, 41, [1] pages, [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 51 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 11 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2014 11 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/callnumSRCHXC.asp?WC=N&SS=N&CN=JJ18_R301_808
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN JJ18 R301 808: Bookplate of John Deakin Heaton.

Aquatints by J.C. Stadler; after Humphry Repton.

Many of the plates have overlays attached to indicate changes recommended in landscape effects.

"An inquiry into the changes in architecture, as it relates to palaces and houses in England with some remarks on the introduction of Indian architecture," p. [13]-41, has separate title page.

Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 276.1

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, page 207

Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, page 349

Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 55

BAC Folio A 2014 11 Copy 1: Plates are hand-colored. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards, with printed title label on front cover. Bookplates: J.R. Abbey; T.T.C. Bullock.

BAC Folio A 2014 11 Copy 2: Plates are uncolored. Bound in contemporary red boards; rebacked. Bookplates: Richard Blackett Beaumont; Cecil G.W. Eve.
Subject Terms:
Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums | Pavilions -- England -- Brighton. | Landscape gardening. | Landscape architecture. | Architecture -- England -- Brighton. | Gardens -- Great Britain. | Bullock, T. T. C. -- Bookplate. | Beaumont, Richard Blacket -- Bookplate. | Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896–1969 -- Bookplate. | Eve, Cecil G. W. -- Bookplate. | Heaton, John Deakin -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Hand coloring. | Aquatints. | Overlays.
Contributors:
Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775–1860. | Repton, George Stanley. | Stadler, Joseph Constantine, engraver, publisher. | Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760–1835, printer.