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Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707; Webb, John, 1611-1672 / The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored, by Inigo Jones ... 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, in answer to Dr. Charleton’s reflections; with observations upon the orders and rules of architecture in use among the ancient Romans. Before the whole are prefixed, certain memoirs relating to the life of Inigo Jones; with his effigies, engrav’d by Hollar; as also Dr. Charleton’s, by P. Lombart; and four new views of Stone-Heng, in its present situation: with above twenty other copper-plates, and a compleat index to the entire collection
(1725)
[Dedication] To the favourers of antiquity
TO THE
FAVOURERS
0 F
ANTIQUI1 Y.
IlS Vif-ourfe f STONE-HENG
T is moulded off and caft into a rude
Form, from fome few indigefed
Notes of the late judicious Archi-
ted, the Vitruvius of his Age,
INIGO JONEs. That fo venerable an Anti-
quity might not perijh, but the World made be-
holding to him for reftoring it to Light, the De-
fires of feveral his Learned Friends have en-
couraged me to Compofe this Treatife. Had he
furvived to have done it with his own Hand,
there had needed no Apology. Such as it is,
I make now yours. Accept it in his Name,
from
SSe
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