WOOD, JOHN. 1704-1754.
Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a Letter to The Right Honourable Edward Late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre and sold by C. Hitch, et al, 1747.
Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a Letter to The Right Honourable Edward Late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre and sold by C. Hitch, et al, 1747.
8vo (203 x 135 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bladud by Baron after Hoare, 5 engraved plans (4 folding). 119, [1] pp. Later sheep, red morocco spine label, covers scuffed, worming to frontispiece and first and last few leaves.
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London (pencil notation).
Architect John Wood's detailed survey of Stonehenge, which he theorized was a Druid college where divines "performed their offices assigned to their Order, and pretended to raise up the infernal Deities from below."
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Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a Letter to The Right Honourable Edward Late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre and sold by C. Hitch, et al, 1747.
Choir Gaure, Vulgarly Called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Described, Restored, and Explained; In a Letter to The Right Honourable Edward Late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre and sold by C. Hitch, et al, 1747.
8vo (203 x 135 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bladud by Baron after Hoare, 5 engraved plans (4 folding). 119, [1] pp. Later sheep, red morocco spine label, covers scuffed, worming to frontispiece and first and last few leaves.
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London (pencil notation).
Architect John Wood's detailed survey of Stonehenge, which he theorized was a Druid college where divines "performed their offices assigned to their Order, and pretended to raise up the infernal Deities from below."
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