Designs For The Pavillon Sic At Brighton Humbly Inscribed To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales
$17,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
First edition · Signed
Publisher's grey paper boards, tan paper spine with printed paper label entirely uncut. Housed within blue morocco backed cloth box. First edition of a superb, wide-margined copy of Repton's fascinating proposal for a Royal Palace at Brighton. Humphry Repton was the main successor to Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as an improver of grounds for the English gentry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was particularly noted for his Red Books. These
- Binding: Hardcover
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