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The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored

Also known as The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury plain. Restored by Inigo Jones esquire, architect generall to the late king

by Inigo Jones, John Webb, Laurence Chapman, James Flesher, Wenceslaus Hollar, Daniel Pakeman & Anthony Van Dyck

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Edited by John Webb from Inigo Jones's notes. See A4r Frontispiece port. of Inigo Jones etched by Wenceslas Hollar after Anthony van Dyck. Seven numbered, folded woodcut plates (plans and elevations). Three additional full-page woodcut plans on M2r, M3r, M4r Signatures: [A]² chi1 B-P. [A]2 signed A3 Errata, p. [110] Side notes Wing (2nd ed.) Binding: old mottled calfskin. Spine tooled in gilt, title on red label in 2nd compartment, G 1:5 in 3rd compartment. Edges of boards rolled in blind. Page edges marbled Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label signed P.S. at upper left corner of front pastedown. Mounted on t.p. verso is engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, dated 1701. Occasional marginal annotations in pencil

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary matched “Megalithic monuments” and “Stonehenge”. Retained metadata contains “megalithic” in the subject metadata, “Megalithic monuments” in the subject metadata, and “Stonehenge” in the subject metadata.

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The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury plain.

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1655London, Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman ... and Laurence Chapman ...; Printed by J. Flesher for D. Pakeman and L. ChapmanEnglishPublic

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 10 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL110263W
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