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(ARCHITECTURE.) Ware, Isaac. A Complete Body of Architecture . . . in which are interspersed some Designs of Inigo Jones, never before published. Printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece and 122 plates, including double or triple plates for several others. Folio, artfully rebacked in calf gilt with raised compartments and gilt-lettered red calf lettering piece, retaining original calf boards; frontispiece with portion of foxing and soiling, with an archival repair to verso. First Edition, later issue, with plate 70/71 title changed to Sir Mark Pleydell's, Coleshill in Berkshire. Millard, English 87; Harris 906; Fowler 436. London: T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, 1756
ex-collection frances puleston, signed on the title-page. Puleston was a Welsh heiress married to Bryan Cooke, of Owston (Yorkshire), Member of Parliament for Malton. She sat for George Romney between 1787 and 1789 for the well-known portrait that hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ware is best known for this translation of Palladio's great treatise which offers a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Georgian architecture. It is organized in ten "Books" treating all aspects of architecture including construction, the classical orders, interior and exterior details, elevations, bridges, and geometry.
