Repton, Humphry (1752-1818), Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, London: W. Bulmer and Co., for J.& J. Boydell, 1795, first edition, half title, 16 aquatints (complete), some of these double page, of which ten hand colored and ten with movable overslips, wood engraved tail piece, in a signed Brentano's full grained leather with ruled and decorated spine, later gilt crest on the front and back covers, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, Abbey Scenery,ÿ388; Tooley 210Note: "the art can only be advanced and perfected by the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener. The former must conceive a plan, which the latter must execute...yet the luxuriant imagination of the painter must be subjected to the gardener's practical knowledge in painting, digging and moving earth". - Humphry Repton, explaining the term Landscape Gardening in his introduction to Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening.; Provenance: The Estate of William N. Banks, Jr., Newnan, Georgia some dampstaining on the front and back boards, rubbing at the extremities and some loss, several moveable overslips with small tears in the upper borders at the page fold including plate XI, XII and XIV, otherwise very good