The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng,. on Salisbury Plain, restored, by Inigo Jones, Esq; ... To which are added, The Chorea Gigantum, or, Stone-Heng restored to the Danes, by Doctor Charleton; and Mr. Webb's Vindication of Stone-Heng restored, ... with above twenty ... copper-plates, and a compleat index to the entire collection.
Walter Charleton (1619-1707)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3200548
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],72,[10],48,[6],228,[16]p.,plates. ports... fol. Former shelfmark: C.II.b.30. Imperfect: wanting final advertisement leaf. With a green ribbon bookmark at p. 70. Provenance: stamped "Bibliothek Sugenheim". Pencil note signed HG [i.e. Hugh Gatty, (1907-1948)]: "The book-marker compares curiously with one in a book in S.J.C. library [?] A.9. of the same pattern. Sugenheim is near Würburg, Bavaria. H.G." Under this, also in pencil: "This book belonged to my friend Hugh Gatty, Fellow and Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge, who died on March 18th 1948. The notes above are in his handwriting. Robert Ketton-Cremer [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Also small armorial bookplate, lettered Alex: F.H.V. Secre doree. Binding: eighteenth-century full polished panelled Cambridge-style, sewn onto six raised bands; gold-tooled spine, gold-lettered "Iones & C: Of Stone=Heng".
Makers and roles
Walter Charleton (1619-1707) Inigo Jones (London 1573 – London 1652) John Webb (1611 - 1672)