Repton was a distinguished 19th-century English landscape gardener who took an revolutionary tactic to illustrating design and style proposals for his clients’ gardens, many of which are compiled in an elaborate gold-tooled leather-based volume titled Fragments on the Principle and Follow of Landscape Gardening (1816). Humphry Repton, published 1839     I first encountered Fragments when the copy from the museum’s Ryerson and Burnham Libraries arrived at the e book conservation lab. I was questioned to get the job done on the broken go over and quite a few detached foldout illustrations, with the purpose of restoring perform even though retaining the initial supplies, new technology. In this quantity,…