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KIP, Johannes (1653-1722).] Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne . London: David Mortier, 1715-1717-1713-1715-1714. 5 parts bound in 4 volumes [including Atlas ], 2° (524 x 340mm). Titles printed in red and black with engraved royal arms. 255 engraved plates, 30 folding double-page, 198 double-page and 4 folding, by Johannes Kip after Kip, Leonard Knyff, and others, 40 engraved maps, 38 double-page and one folding, after Jan Blaeu, engraved initials and tailpiece, and woodcut tailpieces. Text in French. Letterpress cancellans slip on II, p. 10 and early manuscript corrections on II, p. [15] (the RIBA set has letterpress cancellans slips on both pages) and manuscript numbering of plates in vols II and III similar to that in the RIBA set. (Variable spotting, browning and offsetting, occasional marginal marking, 6 plates trimmed with small losses, one map with short tear.) Mid- or late-18th-century Dutch panelled vellum gilt, boards with central floral block enclosing oval cartouche, panel formed of foliate rolls with floral cornerpieces, border of dog's-tooth foliate rolls, red leather spine labels, red speckled edges (lightly marked and scuffed). Provenance : manuscript note in Dutch recording purchase on 3 March 1771 on lower pastedowns -- 19th-century English manuscript pressmarks. Cf. Berlin Kat 2328 (1715-1728 ed.); Brunet IV, 114-115 (1724-1728 ed.); Lewine pp. 262-263 (1724-1728 ed.); Lowndes pp. 1277-1278 (1724-1728 ed.); RIBA 389 (1716-1716-1714-1715-1714 ed.). Henry WINSTANLEY (1644-1703). Book of the Ground: Platt's, Generall and Particular Prospects of All the Parts of His Majesty's Royal Palace of Audley End . [?Littlebury and London: H. Winstanley, ?1688]. 2° (525 x 334mm). 3 engraved dedication leaves and 24 double-page engraved plates by and after Winstanley, 3 folding, tipped onto blank leaves at the folds. Extra-illustrated with H. Winstanley. 'Advertisement'. [?Littlebury: H. Winstanley, ?1670s], double-page engraved plate (346 x 416mm), by and after Winstanley. Cf. RIBA 3692 (note). (Some light spotting, some skilfully repaired tears, washed, 'Advertisement' torn with small losses, skilfully repaired.) Late 19th/early 20th-century English panelled vellum gilt, bound to be uniform with Kip's Nouveau Theatre . Brunet V, 1464 ('cette series se trouve très-difficilement'); ESTC R38146; Lowndes p. 2953; RIBA 3692; Upcott pp. 241-242; Wing 3057A. Provenance : B.T. Batsford, London (bookseller's ticket in all volumes) -- Laurence Currie (bookplate in all volumes). A FINELY BOUND SET OF KIP'S NOUVEAU THEATRE DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE WITH THE COMPLETE SET OF WINSTANLEY'S RARE SET OF VIEWS OF AUDLEY END, 'the most ambitious architectural record of any building of its time' (J. Harris The Artist and the Country House (London: 1979), p. 101). The expatriate Dutch engraver Johannes Kip and his compatriot the artist Leonard Knyff undertook the project of publishing this series of views with the Dutch publisher and bookseller David Mortier, who was resident in London from 1698. The first volume was published under the title Britannia Illustrata in 1707, and a French translation appeared in 1708 as Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne , presumably to take advantage of the continental European market. The scale of the work expanded over the following years, as a second part was added to volume I of the French edition in 1716 (comprising all the plates previously published in Sir Robert Atkyns' The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire (London: 1712, cf. lot 157), together with nine other plates), and second and third volumes, including a supplementary atlas, in 1714-1715 (the present volumes II and III). The work was re-issued in 1724-28 to incldue additional plates and a fifth volume containing 21 of the 24 plates of Winstanley's Audley End and other engravings. The 1688 folio edition of Audley End , with Winstanley's Advertisement, was added to the present set of Kip in the late in the late 19th- or early 20th-cen