Lot 88
Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, 1725
Hammer Price: £750
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Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, 2 engraved portraits of Jones and Charleton bound at beginning, general title in red & black but lacking separate title to first part, 13 engraved plates including one repeated in third part, most folding or double-page, engraved illustrations in text, lacking advertisement leaf at end, browning to some plates particularly portrait and repeated plate, worming to lower margin of first few leaves, engraved bookplate of Sir Charles Mordaunt to verso of title and of Sir John Mordaunt to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf with double gilt fillet, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, lacking label, [Fowler 159; Harris 384], folio, printed [by James Betterman] for D. Browne Junior...J.Woodman and D.Lyon, 1725.
⁂ Collected edition of the second editions of Jones's hypothesis concerning the Roman origin of Stonehenge, Charleton's critical response to this, suggesting that the stones were erected by Danes, and Webb's vehement reply in defence of Jones's theory.
Description
Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Vulgarly Called Stone-heng, 3 parts in 1, 2 engraved portraits of Jones and Charleton bound at beginning, general title in red & black but lacking separate title to first part, 13 engraved plates including one repeated in third part, most folding or double-page, engraved illustrations in text, lacking advertisement leaf at end, browning to some plates particularly portrait and repeated plate, worming to lower margin of first few leaves, engraved bookplate of Sir Charles Mordaunt to verso of title and of Sir John Mordaunt to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf with double gilt fillet, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, lacking label, [Fowler 159; Harris 384], folio, printed [by James Betterman] for D. Browne Junior...J.Woodman and D.Lyon, 1725.
⁂ Collected edition of the second editions of Jones's hypothesis concerning the Roman origin of Stonehenge, Charleton's critical response to this, suggesting that the stones were erected by Danes, and Webb's vehement reply in defence of Jones's theory.