A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences : and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers, in all which the object in view is to unite in a better manner than has hitherto been done, a taste founded in nature with economy and utility, in constructing or improving mansions, and other rural buildings, so as to combine architectural fitness with picturesque effect ... : with an appendix, containing an enquiry into the utility and merits of Mr. Repton's mode of shewing effects by slides and sketches, and strictures on his opinions and practice in landscape gardening : illustrated by descriptions of scenery and buildings, by references to country seats, and passages of country in most parts of Great Britain, and by thirty-two engravings (1806)

Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, Angus, William, 1752-1821, Howlett, Bartholomew, 1767-1827, Greig, John, Wise, William, engraver, Storer, James, 1771-1853, Roper, John · London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by C. Whittingham · leaf 53

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