A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. of His Majesty's board of works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published (oversize)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. of His Majesty's board of works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K083
Creator(s): Ware, Isaac (1704?-1766)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Guest, John (Former owner); Scott, Arthur Finley (Former owner)
Related people: Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652
Publisher: Printed for J. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, W. Owen, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, and B. Collins
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Language: English
Size and medium: [18],92,[2],93-116,[2],117-120,[2],121-748,[4]p., plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/745850
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020037596605181
Description
Titlepage in red and black.
Comprises books I-X [1-10].
The last 2 leaves contain the index.
A re-issue of the sheets of the Osborne and Shipton 1756 edition, with a different titlepage, and sigs. B and L-T re-printed.
With an unnumbered leaf of text inserted between pp.92-93, 116-117 and 120-121.
Bedford Collection K083 has extra leaf between pages 96-97, 116-117 and 120-121.
Plates engraved by I Ware, P Fourdrinier, H Roberts, Boyce and others. Frontispiece by Ware and H Roberts.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K083: two loose pages of notes in John Bedford's hand collating the plates.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K083: contemporary full calf, gold tooled on cover and on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K083: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Ao/22. Nineteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Arthur Scott, Rotherfield [i.e. see Franks bequest 26266, Rotherfield Park, Hampshire]. MS. inscription on title page: John Guest[?] 1770.
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