JONES INIGO The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain vul

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JONES, INIGO. The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng . . . 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. 2 engraved portraits and 12 plates. [12], 72; [10], 48; [6], 228, [13] pages. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 350x222, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, scuffed; portraits browned, otherwise a clean, wide-margined copy. Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. London: (James Bettenham for) D. Browne et al., 1725

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Second edition of Jones's 1655 work attributing the building of Stonehenge to the Romans, also reprinting Walter Charleton's 1663 refutation and John Webb's 1664 defense of Jones. Fowler 159; Macdonald 8b (for dedicatory verses by Dryden in Chorea Gigantum).