Inigo Jones
By: by John Summerson
Series: The Architect and society
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Biographies; Architectes
Description: Inigo Jones is regarded as the first English classical architect. Originally published in 1966, this book reassesses Jones' life and career, clearing away the myths of attribution the have been built up around him. It is enhanced by a revised bibliography, and a new foreword and notes.
Notes: Pelican book A839.

Bibliography: p. 141-144.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early years; title: The masques; title: The first architectural designs; title: Surveyor to Prince Henry; title: The second Italian journey; title: The surveyor; title: Ten years' work : 1615-25; title: Philosophy : architecture; title: The royal works of Charles I; title: Covent Garden; title: St Paul's Cathedral; title: Inigo at sixty; title: Town and country; title: The Whitehall designs; title: The last years.