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1804 — Two Volumes. With 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates "Drawn by H. Repton. Engraved by Stadler.", title vignettes signed "H. Repton inv. & delin. H. R.Cook sculpsit." Offsetting. Plates age stained especially on verso. Decorated title pages. 185mm. Disbound. Early inked ownership of E.W. Spangler in both volumes and scratched out ownership on title pages. Edward Webster Spangler. (1846-1907) was from York, PA. During the Civil War he was a member of Company K, 130th Regiment PA Volunteers, Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. After the War he was a lawyer in York for more than 40 years, president of the Spangler Manufacturing Company, and for a time publisher of the York Daily (Record). .Humphry Repton (1752-1818) was a great English landscape designer, and illustrator. These 'Odd Whims' were dedicated to his neighbour William Windham of Felbrigg Hall. Repton served as Windham's confidential secretary during Windham's very brief stint as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 5