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Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening INCLUDING SOME REMARKS ON GRECIAN AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, Collected from Various Manuscripts, IN THE POSSESSION OF THE DIFFERENT NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, FOR WHOSE USE THEY WERE ORIGINALLY WRITTEN; THE WHOLE TENDING TO ESTABLISH FIXED PRINCIPLES IN THE RESPECTIVE ARTS. BY H. REPTON, ESQ. TO THE KING, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION, THIS WORK IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS MAJESTY'S MOST FAITHFUL, OBEDIENT, AND HUMBLE SUBJECT, HUMPHRY REPTON. Hare Street, near Romford, Dec. 31, 1802. [Published in 1803.] [This edition is from 1840 collected edition of The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq, edited by J C Loudon (JCL) with additional editing by Tom Turner (TT). Page titles have been added. The scanning has been checked but it is likely to have residual errors]