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Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton
by REPTON H. [Humphrey] 1752-1818. assisted by REPTON J.A. 1775-1860. & REPTON G.S. c1786-1858
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: No 15, Villiers Street, Strand: J.C. Stadler, 1808. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. SPEED John 1551/2-162. Complete, 20 wonderful illustrations. First Edition, 1808 In half long grain morocco over grey/blue speckled boards, retaining part of the original printed paper label to upper board, gilt title to spine. Internally, title, [4], [1], (ii-x), frontis, [1], 2-41 pp, with a total of 20 aquatint plates & vignettes (including coloured plan, 9 hand coloured, 6 with overslips, 1 with overpage, 1 double page, 1 folding, 2 * sepia washe), all by JC Stadler after Repton, small tear to folding plate, slight creasing to edges of some overslips, light water stain to 1 leaf, other minor, mostly marginal soiling, plates & text leaves watermarked J Whatman 1807, plates dated 1808, book label to fpd (EP John WEstby). Housed in a modern quarter calf over green cloth slipcase. (540*369 mm). (Abbey Scenery 57; Tooley 397. Prideaux 349). Repton's proposal for the pavilion in the Indian style of architecture, originally published in 1808, was not built due to the Prince Regent's financial difficulties at the time, but his ideas were taken up by John Nash who designed the building we know today in 1815.
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- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007875
- Title
- Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton
- Author
- REPTON H. [Humphrey] 1752-1818. assisted by REPTON J.A. 1775-1860. & REPTON G.S. c1786-1858
- Illustrator
- SPEED John 1551/2-162
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J.C. Stadler
- Place of Publication
- London: No 15, Villiers Street, Strand
- Date Published
- 1808
- Size
- Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" t
- Weight
- 8.82 lbs
- Keywords
- architecture gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Gardening plants cultivation Floral Agriculture;
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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