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 572
to a place of such importanceas Ashridge, is no trifling consideration; and it ought well tobe weighed, before we sacrifice one of the most splendid andcostly works of art, to the reigning rage for nature, and all thatis deemed natural. FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY, &c. 531 It will, perhaps, be… … [Fig.SIC. Oeeign for* conduit proposed at Asliridfje, with a distant view of the rosary and monks garden.] Let us, then, begin by defining what a garden is, and whatit ought to be. It is a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,and appropriated to the use and pleasure of man: it is, orought to be,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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