THE DESIGNS OF INIGO JONES, CONSISTING OF PLANS AND ELEVATIONS FOR PUBLICK AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS.

KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748).

Published by London. 1727, 1727

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2 volumes in one folio 21 x 11 1/2 inches- bound in period boards with reverse calf spine - worn. Bound without the half title and the frontispiece (as often), otherwise complete. Collates- title with vignette, (xii) pages including the list of subscribers and plates numbered 1-73. Title to volume two with vignette, (vi) pages and plates numbered 1-63. Thus 136 numbered plates on 97 leaves (24 double-page, 5 folding) by P. Fourdrinier, H. Hulsbergh, J. Cole and A. Herisset, most drawn by Henry Flitcroft, the designs credited to Jones, Kent and Lord Burlington. Plate 55 in volume two with an ink stain and the last three leaves in the same volume with an old marginal worm track. However, but for the issues mentioned, and the tired worn binding- internally an unusually bright and crisp copy. On good clean laid paper. Inigo Jones (1573-1652) was the first significant architect in England and Wales in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. FIRST EDITION. The subscribers included Colen Campbell, James Gibbs, Christopher Wren, and Nicholas Hawksmoor. An old armorial bookplate. Bibliographies- Archer 166.1; Fowler 162; Harris 385. "The Designs of Inigo Jones is an impressive and important work. 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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DESIGNS OF INIGO JONES, CONSISTING OF PLANS AND ELEVATIONS FOR PUBLICK AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
• Publisher: London. 1727
• Publication Date: 1727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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