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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 500

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twenty feet wide, is to bethirty feet long ; and twenty-four wide, to be thirty-six long ;and so in proportion, till it reaches any width and length.But when the dimensions are contracted, we must recollectthat a certain space betwixt the door and the fire-place oughtto be preserved ; and,… … Since the chief object of this collection of Fragments is tobring before the eye those changes, or improvements, whichwords alone will not sufficiently explain, two sketches [figs.184 and 185] are introduced, to shew the contrast betwixtthe ancient cedar parlour, and the modern living-room : but…

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