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CHARLETON, Walter. Chorea Gigantum; or, the most famous antiquity of Great-Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restored to the Danes. London: Henry Herringman, 1663.
4° (183 x 142mm.). Imprimatur leaf, title in red and black. 2 woodcut plates, one folding. Contemporary sheep, later lettering-piece on spine (joints weak). Provenance: JOHN EVELYN (inscription 'Catalogo JEvelyn inscriptus 1662. Meliora Retinete', sale Christie's 22 June 1977 #420 to Lyons).
FIRST EDITION of a work produced in reply to Inigo Jones's posthumously published work postulating a Roman origin for Stonehenge. Charlton championed the Danes and suggested that it was built by them as a 'Court Royal, or place for the Election and Inauguration of their Kings.' This work also contains the first printing of Dryden's 'Epistle to Doctor Charleton.' Fowler 89; Macdonald Dryden 8a; Wing C-3666.
4° (183 x 142mm.). Imprimatur leaf, title in red and black. 2 woodcut plates, one folding. Contemporary sheep, later lettering-piece on spine (joints weak). Provenance: JOHN EVELYN (inscription 'Catalogo JEvelyn inscriptus 1662. Meliora Retinete', sale Christie's 22 June 1977 #420 to Lyons).
FIRST EDITION of a work produced in reply to Inigo Jones's posthumously published work postulating a Roman origin for Stonehenge. Charlton championed the Danes and suggested that it was built by them as a 'Court Royal, or place for the Election and Inauguration of their Kings.' This work also contains the first printing of Dryden's 'Epistle to Doctor Charleton.' Fowler 89; Macdonald Dryden 8a; Wing C-3666.