Designs For The Pavillon Sic At Brighton Humbly Inscribed To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales

by Humphry Repton

$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

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.