Odd Whims; and Miscellanies.
by REPTON, Humphry
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London: printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer & Co, 1804. Two volumes, complete with half-titles. 2 stipple-engraved title page vignettes, 10 fine hand coloured aquatint plates engraved by J. Stadler after drawings by Repton. Pp. xii, [ii (contents], 171; [iv], 164. 8vo., half green morocco with gilt tooling by Bayntun of Bath, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A very good, handsome set.||Several of the essays were printed in Variety magazine and the comedy which appears in the second volume “Odd Whims, or Two at a Time” was written in 1783 and was produced at Ipswich in 1804.
Booklabel of George Seton Veitch.|Abbey, Life, 246 Amusing essays and dialogues, written and illustrated by the great landscape gardener Humphry Repton
Booklabel of George Seton Veitch.|Abbey, Life, 246 Amusing essays and dialogues, written and illustrated by the great landscape gardener Humphry Repton
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- Title
- Odd Whims; and Miscellanies.
- Author
- REPTON, Humphry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1804
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- Book,Illustrated
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