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Odd whims and miscellanies

Title: Odd whims and miscellanies / by Humphrey Repton, Esq.
Author: Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.
Publication: London : Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1804.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	vol. 2	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books 21-302 vol. 2	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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Description

2 volumes : color engravings; 26 cm

Alternative Title

Repton's odd whims

Subject

English essays

Genre/Form

Private press books – England – London – 19th century.

Note

Pagination: v. 1: xii, [2], 171, [1] pages, [5] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 164 pages, [5] leaves of plates.
Title vignette is an allegorical stipple engraving of cherubs, engraved by H. R. Cook after a drawing by Repton.
Illustrated with 10 engraved plates of colored aquatints engraved by J. Stadler after drawings by Repton; published by William Miller, 1804.

Indexed In (note)

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860

Binding (note)

Bound in brown leather boards with gilt spine.

Contents

v. 1. Thoughts on happiness -- Variety of characters -- On love -- On dissipation -- On cheating -- Allegory of hope and expectation -- On gratitude -- On fashion in dress -- The bashful man -- Voyage to the moon -- The friar's tale -- v. 2. Observations on the drama -- Odd whims, or, Two at a time: a comedy in five acts -- Poetic miscellanies...

Call Number

Rare Books 21-302

OCLC

45717114

Author

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.

Title

Odd whims and miscellanies / by Humphrey Repton, Esq.

Imprint

London : Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1804.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 246-247

Binding

Bound in brown leather boards with gilt spine. NN

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Added Author

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, ill.

Stadler, Joseph Constantine, engraver.

Cook, Henry R., engraver.

Miller, William, 1769-1844, bookseller, publisher.

W. Bulmer and Co., printer.

Spine Title

Repton's odd whims

Research Call Number

Rare Books 21-302

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