HUMPHREY REPTON: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England

DANIELS, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0300079648 / ISBN 13: 9780300079647

Edité par New Haven and London Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press 1999, 1999

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FIRST EDITION 4to. pale green cloth hardback, in unclipped dust jacket. 317pp., Indexed, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. A VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. (Shelf 16/97) ISBN: 0300079648 PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK (1.6 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: HUMPHREY REPTON: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England
• Éditeur: New Haven and London Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press 1999
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300079648
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300079647
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (1752–1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton’s career and work in the context of the changing human geography of his time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures, the book charts Repton’s vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself.

Stephen Daniels frames Repton’s life and work in terms of five domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way these domains shaped Repton’s career and how he in turn attempted to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty representative commissions that delineate Repton’s social and spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself in English culture and society.

Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

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Stephen Daniels is professor of cultural geography at the University of Nottingham.