Ripley, Ware and Kent | The Plans [...] of Houghton in Norfolk, 1760

Thoms Ripley, Isaac Ware, and William Kent

The Plans, Elevations, and Sections; Chimney-Pieces, and Cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk; Built by the Rt Honourable Sr Robert Walpole [...] Earl of Orford &c. The whole Designed by Thomas Ripley Esqr Delineated by Isaac Ware and Willam Kent Esqrs And most elegantly engrav'd by the Ingenious Mr Fourdrinier. With a Description of the House and of the Elegant Collection of Pictures. London: Sold by C. Fourdrinier [...] Mr Lewis [...] Mssrs Piers & Webley, 1760

Large folio, engraved title and dedication, 23 plates (of 27, numbered to 35 as including several double page plates), engraved label with vignette ("Published by I: Ware") on front free endpapers, half roan on blue marbled boards, lacking plate numbers 1-2 and 11-16 with stubs, binding worn, upper hinge broken, edges frayed, dust-staining at margins and creases to endpapers

A WALPOLE FAMILY COPY. Thomas Ripley had been responsible for the construction of Houghton for Robert Walpole between 1722 and 1735. Isaac Ware was apprenticed to Ripley and undoubtedly worked at Houghton. This collaboration between Ware, Ripley and the engraver Foudrinier was first published in 1735, and was republished in 1760 by the original engraver's son Charles Foudrinier with changes to a small number of the copper plates. The current copy lacks the doudle-page view of the west front and three double-page sections.

PROVENANCE:

Earl of Orford, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate

LITERATURE:

British Architectural Library: Early Printed Books 1478-1840, no. 3584