STUKELEY, William (1687-1765). Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids. London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, 1740.
Small folio (330 x 209 mm). 36 engraved plates, including 8 folding and frontispiece. (Offsetting and spotting throughout, marginal toning to plates, stain to a few plates in upper margin.) 19th century calf gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in one, others gilt, all edges gilt (joints and fore-corners discreetly repaired, possibly rebacked, spine ends reinforced).
FIRST EDITION. William Stukeley was a British antiquarian and physician whose pioneering research into the prehistoric megalithic structures of Stonehenge and Avebury helped pave the way for the modern discipline of archaeology, with his stratigraphic methods continuing to be in use to this day. It was Stukeley's research that identified the association between Stonehenge and the druids, and his work resulted in one of the first maps of the site and its surrounding area. Allibone, 2296; ESTC T146300; Graesse, p.515; Lowndes 2541.
[With]: STUKELEY. Abury: A Temple of the British Druids. London: Printed for the Author, 1743. 40 engraved plates, including 2 folding, with a large folding bird's eye view of Avebury. (Offsetting and spotting throughout, marginal toning to plates, dampstaining along upper margins.) Uniformly bound with the above. FIRST EDITION.
