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Auction archive: Lot number 343

JONES, Inigo (1573-1652) The Designs of Inigo Jones consisti...

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,267 - US$7,113
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$7,113
Auction archive: Lot number 343

JONES, Inigo (1573-1652) The Designs of Inigo Jones consisti...

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,267 - US$7,113
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$7,113
Beschreibung:

JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings . Edited by William Kent London: Benjamin White for William Kent 1770.
JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings . Edited by William Kent London: Benjamin White for William Kent 1770. 2 volumes in one, 2º (515 x 343mm). Parallel text in English and French. Engraved frontispiece, titles with portrait vignette, 99 engraved plates numbered to 73 and 64 in each volume, 7 folding and 24 double-page, those in vol. I from the designs of Henry Flitcroft of the work of Inigo Jones those in vol. 2 from the designs of William Kent of buildings by Lord Burlington, engraved head- and tailpieces. (Occasional marginal spotting, repair to upper gutter of one plate.) Contemporary quarter calf, red morocco label on gilt spine, marbled boards, speckled edges (rubbed and lightly stained). Provenance : Jasper More (bookplate). Second edition, following the first of 1727, with the same set of plates plus two additional engravings, the perspective of the proposed Whitehall Palace by Elias Ferris and an elevation of Flitcroft’s design for Wentworth House by Schwerdfeger. ‘A French title page and list of plates [were] added to each volume, presumably in the hope of encouraging continental sales’ (RIBA 1625). Berlin Kat. 2268 Fowler 162 (1st edition); Lowndes 1226.

Auction archive: Lot number 343
Beschreibung:

JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings . Edited by William Kent London: Benjamin White for William Kent 1770.
JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings . Edited by William Kent London: Benjamin White for William Kent 1770. 2 volumes in one, 2º (515 x 343mm). Parallel text in English and French. Engraved frontispiece, titles with portrait vignette, 99 engraved plates numbered to 73 and 64 in each volume, 7 folding and 24 double-page, those in vol. I from the designs of Henry Flitcroft of the work of Inigo Jones those in vol. 2 from the designs of William Kent of buildings by Lord Burlington, engraved head- and tailpieces. (Occasional marginal spotting, repair to upper gutter of one plate.) Contemporary quarter calf, red morocco label on gilt spine, marbled boards, speckled edges (rubbed and lightly stained). Provenance : Jasper More (bookplate). Second edition, following the first of 1727, with the same set of plates plus two additional engravings, the perspective of the proposed Whitehall Palace by Elias Ferris and an elevation of Flitcroft’s design for Wentworth House by Schwerdfeger. ‘A French title page and list of plates [were] added to each volume, presumably in the hope of encouraging continental sales’ (RIBA 1625). Berlin Kat. 2268 Fowler 162 (1st edition); Lowndes 1226.

Auction archive: Lot number 343
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