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Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng,
Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng,
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Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored, 3 parts in 1, engraved portrait frontispiece of Jones by Hollar after Van Dyck, general title in red and black, 13 engraved plates, most folding or double-page, engraved illustrations in text, without the portrait of Charleton, 2 prospect plates outer margins trimmed to just within or without border, N1&2 upper margin repaired, just touching headlines, mostly marginal water-staining, encroaching on text in index ff. at end and occasionally elsewhere, some spotting or foxing, modern calf, panels from 18th century panelled calf laid down on covers (these with some loss and rubbed and scuffed), [Fowler 159; Harris 384], folio, Printed [?by James Bettenham] for D. Browne junior, and J. Woodman and D. Lyon, 1725.

⁂ Jones' hypothesis of the Roman origin of Stonehenge, with Charleton's critical response to this, suggesting that the stones were erected by Danes, and Webb's defence of Jones.
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Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng,

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