Volume 1

A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers ... / With an appendix, containing an enquiry into ... Mr. Repton's mode of shewing effects by slides and sketches, and strictures on his opinions and practice in landscape gardening. By John Loudon.

John Claudius Loudon

Date:: 1806

Credit: A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers ... / With an appendix, containing an enquiry into ... Mr. Repton's mode of shewing effects by slides and sketches, and strictures on his opinions and practice in landscape gardening. By John Loudon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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