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 342
ded shores, and dashingthe foot of that steep bank on which the mansion is proposedto be erected. This valley is so formed by nature, that aninconsiderable dam will cause a lake, or, rather, broad river,of great apparent extent: for, when I describe water, I neverestimate its effects by the number… … [ Iigr. 117- Map of Bayham Park.] 302 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. is, where no mansion already exists, the choice of situation forthe house will, in some measure, depend on the purpose forwhich it is intended, and the character it ought to assume:thus a mansion, a villa, and a sporting…
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