Humphrey Repton and a few valuable hints on landscape gardening
THE Top lot in this North Yorkshire sale at Tennants on 18 October appeared very early on in the proceedings, when, as part of the opening art and architecture section of the sale, a copy of Humphrey Repton’s Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening was sold for £6000.
This scarce early work by Repton was printed in 1794, in an edition of just 250 copies, according to…