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ARCHITECTURE JONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, William Kent, 1727
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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ARCHITECTURE
JONES (INIGO) The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, titles with engraved portrait vignettes, 109 plates (of 135) on 85 engraved sheets (of 97) by Hulsbergh, Foudrinier and Cole (comprising 21 of 24 double-page; one of 5 folding), engraved head and tail-pieces after William Kent, list of subscribers, lacks frontispiece, contemporary reverse calf, worn with some loss to spine [Fowler 162; Harris 385], folio (460 x 280mm.), William Kent, 1727
Footnotes
"The Designs of Inigo Jones is an impressive and important book. Yet oddly enough more influential than any single building depicted in it were its plates of doors, windows, niches, etc. These plates seem to have had a formative effect upon Gibbs's Book of Architecture (1728) and from that point on became a standard feature of eighteenth-century pattern books" (Harris).
Provenance: W. Wynne, armorial bookplate; by descent to present owner.