Capability Brown & Humphry Repton
by Edward Hyams
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. From dust jacket flap: "Inspired by French & Italian landscape painting, a number of 18th century artist-gardeners led by William Kent created an art form unique in the West, although favoured from the times of antiquity by China and Japan...Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of this art, in terms of both genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton."
