The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 316
es, the comforts, and even the wants of a morerefined people, that it is, in these times, impossible to live inthe baronial castle, the secularized abbey, or even in themore modern palaces, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,preserving all the apartments to their original uses. * This house is… … The chief rooms formerly required in a house of that datewere,— 276 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. The Hall, for the entertainment of friends and vassals; alarge and lofty room, having the floor at one end raised abovethe common level, as at present in the halls of our colleges;this was to…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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