Lot 1052 , Loudon, John - A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences; Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers, 2 vols, 4to, rebound half calf, half titles, 32 engraved plates, The Societ

° Loudon, John - A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences; Choice of Situations Appropriate to Every Class of Purchasers, 2 vols, 4to, rebound half calf, half titles, 32 engraved plates, The Society of Writers to the Signet gilt stamp to each front board, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1806. Note: During his early period before rheumatic fever, Loudon produced significant theoretical work aligning with Uvedale Price's ideas and critiquing Capability Brown's. His appendix provides insightful criticism of Repton's techniques in landscape gardening. A. J. Downing aptly dubbed him "the most distinguished gardening author of the age." A concise overview of his career and writings can be found in the Oxford Companion to Gardens, pages 344-5.
£300-400

Condition:
Reasonably clean and good lacking set, though some plate offsetting, old armorial book plates of Alexander Young.

Sold for £340