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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Humphry Repton
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(1752–1818) The leading landscape gardener after the death of Capability *Brown. He modified his predecessor's example in various ways – particularly in contriving a more natural progression between house and park through arrangements of terraces and steps. He is remembered above all for his famous 'red books', bound in red leather for prospective patrons and containing watercolour views with hinged flaps to show house and landscape before and after his proposed improvements. More than 100 red books survive, of the 400 or so which Repton claimed to have made. He also published several books on the theory and practice of *landscape gardening.
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