text; publishers’ advertisements at the end of volume I, errata list at the end of volume II, Directions to the Binder on
the verso of the last preliminary leaf.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Kimball, page 92.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1912. Initialled at sig. I and T. by Jefferson in both volumes.
Dr. Kimball proves that Jefferson used this book before 1779. See his
Thomas Jefferson, Architect, page 134.
The License to print on the first leaf of each volume, dated January 11, 1733/4 and signed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, John James and James Gibbs, reads:
We have perused these Two Volumes of the Builder’s Dictionary, and do think they contain a great deal of useful Knowledge
in the Building Business.
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Ruins of Balbec. by Wood & Dawkins.
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. P, as above, but reading
gr. fol.
[WOOD,
Robert.]
The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Cœlosyria.
London: Printed in the Year
mdcclvii
. [1757.]
NA335 .P2 W8 fol
First Edition. Atlas folio. 16 leaves of text, 46 numbered engraved plates, some folded, after Borra, mostly engraved by Fourdrinier, a few by T. Major. The text ends on page 16, sig. h, and is signed: Robert Wood.
Halkett and Laing V, 149.
De Ricci-Cohen 916 (French edition).
Kimball, page 101.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
29/-.
Robert Wood, 1717?-1771, Irish traveller and politician. This work is referred to by Wood as his second volume, the first being the
Ruins of Palmyra
published in 1753. James Dawkins was Wood’s travelling companion; they were at Palmyra from March 14 to March 27, 1751, and
arrived at Balbec on April 1. In 1756, before this book was published, Wood had become Under Secretary of State under Pitt,
and the book was seen through the press by Dawkins. This is explained by Wood on page 16:
When called from my country by other duties, my necessary absence retarded, in some measure, it’s progress. Mr. Dawkins, with
the same generous spirit, which had so indefatigably surmounted the various obstacles of our voyage, continued carefully to
protect the fruits of those labours which he had so chearfully shared: he not only attended to the accuracy of the work, by
having finished drawings made under his own eye by our draughtsman, from the sketches and measures he had taken on the spot,
but had the engravings so far advanced as to be now ready for the public under our joint inspection.
Both volumes are highly praised by Horace Walpole in the preface of the
Anecdotes of Painting
.
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Ruins of Athens. by Le Roy.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. Q, as above.
LE ROY,
Julien David.
Ruins of Athens; with Remains and other Valuable Antiquities in Greece.
London,
1759.
Folio. No
English edition has been found. No
English edition was listed in any of the bibliographies consulted. Kimball, page 96, quotes the title from the 1849 Library of Congress
catalogue as above.
Julien David Le Roy, 1724-1803, French architect, was in Rome in 1748 when the proposals of Stuart and Revett [see the next following entry]
for studying and describing the antiquities of Athens were first published. Le Roy visited Athens in 1754, after the work
of Stuart and Revett was completed, but succeeded in publishing his book,
Les Ruines des plus Beaux Monuments de la Grèce, in 1758, four years before the publication of the work of Stuart and Revett. Le Roy’s work was considered inferior to that
of Stuart and Revett, and was severely criticised. In 1770 he issued a corrected edition, preceded in 1767 by a pamphlet in
octavo:
Observations sur les édifices des anciens peuples, précédés de réflexions sur la critique des Ruines de la Grèce, publiée
dans un ouvrage anglais
.
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