Designs of Inigo Jones and others
By: published by I. Ware
Contributors: Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652; Kent, William, 1685-1748; Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758; Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764, former owner; Nevill, A. Jonrs, former owner; Mitchell, Herbert, former owner; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: I. Ware
Published: 1731
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Architecture; Details; Early works to 1800; Interior decoration; Architectural Decoration and ornament
Notes: Plates signed: I. Jones Arch. I. Ware Delin. P. Fourdrinier Sculp. Plates 23 and 26 do not note the architect. Plate 25 lists Burlington as the architect. Plates 27 and 31-51 bear inscription: W. Kent inv.

Each folded plate is numbered as two except plate 30.

The Avery library, Columbia University, dated 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. Date of publication from Eileen Harris. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785, no. 909. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Engraved t.p., illustrated (design of large urn, with title on base)

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.

"Most of these designs are already executed & the rest are at Burlington House."--p. [2].

Avery Classics copy 1: Inscribed A. Jonrs Nevill price 15-6 on t.p.

Avery Classics copy 2: Annotated.

Avery Classics copy 2: Plate numbered 48 mutilated without loss of image.

Avery Classics copy 2: Incribed "Orrery bought at London March 25 1738" (possibly Hamilton Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrey) with shelfmark C. Shelf 4 on verso of free front endpaper and binder's blank.

Avery Classics copy 2: Bookplate with motto Honor vertutus Praemium pasted to front pastedown.

Avery Classics copy 2: Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell