Accession number
PML 55624
Creator
Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766.
Published
[London, 1757?]
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
The plates were engraved by P. Fourdrinier from the designs of Isaac Ware of the works of Inigo Jones, Lord Burlington (1 plate) and William Kent.
First ed.
Plates engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier (fl. 1720-1760).
Designs by William Kent: plates 27, 31-51.
Two designs by Thomas Ripley (d. 1758) and ... by Burlington.
Each folded plate is numbered as two.
The Avery library, Columbia University, dates this first edition as 1756? and the British Museum as 1757?; the date ca. 1735 is taken from H. M. Colvin, A biographical dictionary of English architects, 1660-1840. Cambridge, 1954.
Engraved title-page, illustrated (design of large urn, with title on base).
First ed.
Plates engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier (fl. 1720-1760).
Designs by William Kent: plates 27, 31-51.
Two designs by Thomas Ripley (d. 1758) and ... by Burlington.
Each folded plate is numbered as two.
The Avery library, Columbia University, dates this first edition as 1756? and the British Museum as 1757?; the date ca. 1735 is taken from H. M. Colvin, A biographical dictionary of English architects, 1660-1840. Cambridge, 1954.
Engraved title-page, illustrated (design of large urn, with title on base).
Description
[7] p., 53 (i.e. 48) plates (6 fold., incl. plans) 25 cm
Provenance
Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.
Binding
Old calf.
Classification
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