JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. London: William Kent 1727. 2 volumes in 1, 2° (448 x 280mm). Portrait vignette on titles, 4 headpieces, 2 initials and 4 culs-de-lampe, 136 numbered plates on 97 sheets, engraved by Cole, Hulsbergh, Fourdrinter and others after Flitcroft, many double-page, several large and folding. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, occasional mostly marginal light soiling and spotting, short tear in vol. I plate no.6 and vol. II plate 19). 18th--century panelled calf (rebacked, corners and lower board repaired). FIRST EDITION. ' 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 p.251). Archer 166.1; Harris 385; Fowler 162; RIBA 1624.
JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. London: William Kent 1727. 2 volumes in 1, 2° (448 x 280mm). Portrait vignette on titles, 4 headpieces, 2 initials and 4 culs-de-lampe, 136 numbered plates on 97 sheets, engraved by Cole, Hulsbergh, Fourdrinter and others after Flitcroft, many double-page, several large and folding. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, occasional mostly marginal light soiling and spotting, short tear in vol. I plate no.6 and vol. II plate 19). 18th--century panelled calf (rebacked, corners and lower board repaired). FIRST EDITION. ' 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 p.251). Archer 166.1; Harris 385; Fowler 162; RIBA 1624.
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