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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Fragments 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
(1816)
Fragment XXVIII. Containing extracts from the report of Woburn Abbey, pp. [148]-164
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FRAGMENT XXVIII. CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF WOBURN ABBEY. THE Improvements I have had the honour to suggest have no where been so fully realized as at Woburn Abbey; I am there- fore peculiarly obliged to his Grace the Duke of Bedford for permission to avail myself of my original manuscript, by ex- tracting more largely than in any other instance, although such extract can only be considered as a fragment, since the original report consists of ninety pages, elucidated by forty-seven draw- ings, maps, and diagrams. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. MY LORD DUKE, I have the honour to lay before your Grace the following remarks concerning the further Improvement of the Grounds about Woburn Abbey. If in composing this vo- lume I have had some difficulties, they have arisen less from the nature of the subject, than from my delicacy, as a profes- sional man, making me unwilling to mention with disapproba-
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