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The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for public and private buildings

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Type of record: Book

Title: The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for public and private buildings

Other titles: Desseins du celebre Inigo Jones

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Architecture B-0.1/JON

Creator(s): Jones, Inigo (1573-1652)

Additional creator(s): Kent, William (1685-1748) (Other)

Related people: Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652

Publisher: Printed for Benjamin White

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1770

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 v in 1

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/184071

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008182939705181

Description

List of plates in English and French.


Title vignettes (ports.); head and tail-pieces.


Plates are numbered 1 to 73 in v. 1, and 1 to 64 in v. 2, but the single-fold plates bear 2 numbers and the 3-fold plates bear 4 numbers according to the number of sheets composing the ill. Therefore, with the frontispiece, there are 100 plates in the 2 v.


Critical opinion questions the validity of some of the attributions to Jones as well as the accuracy of some of the representations.


Added title-page in French: Les desseins du celebre Inigo Jones, consistant en plans et elevations, pour des edifices publics et des batimens particuliers.


Indexed in: Lees-Milne, J. Age of I.J p. 168, footnote 2.

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Wanting: vol.2, plate 47, 48

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