Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818
Title:
The red books of Humphry Repton.
Published / Created:
London : Basilisk Press, 1976.
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., plates (part col.) plans ; 23 x 30 cm.-45 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A S 2

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Printed by Cotswold Collotype Limited; bound by W.T. Morrell and Co.

The author's calling card, reproduced in v. 2-3, originally engraved by T. Medland.

Some plates have overlays, in the manner of an overlay from an original red book; some are mounted.

Title from colphon; each vol. has special title page.

Vols. 1-3 are facsimiles of illustrated mss.

"Five hundred and fifteen sets have been printed ..."

In case (48 cm.) as issued.

Bibliographical notes in v.4.
Contents:
v.1. Plans for Sherringham in Norfolk ... by H. Repton, assisted in the architecture by his son, I. A. Repton.--v.2. Antony House in Cornwall.--v.3. Attingham in Shropshire.--v.4. Malins, E. The red books of Humphry Repton.
Subject Terms:
Sheringham Hall. | Antony House. | Country homes -- England. | Landscape gardening -- England. | Landscape architecture -- England. | Landscapes in art. | Gardens in art.
Form/Genre:
Red books. | Overlays.
Contributors:
Malins, Edward Greenway. Red books of Humphry Repton. | Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775–1860.