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TURNER Joseph Mallord William
Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall. Text by Alex. J. Finberg. COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL PARTS WITH PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS AND FORM
6 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with 30 fine coloured landscape plates (all original captioned tissue guards present and printed in brown), some light and generally inoffensive spotting (mainly marginal); original black card wrappers, upper wrappers blocked and lettered in gold, sewed as issued, yapped edges generally lightly frayed, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. WITH THE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS FOR THE SERIES AND SEPARATE ORDER FORM LOOSELY INSERTED. This series of coloured reproductions of watercolours held at Farnley Hall in Yorkshire was published first in parts (as here) and then as a bound volume. COMPLETE SETS IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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JACKSON Robert
Canberra. The Operational Record. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
English Villages. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 25 monochrome illustrations in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Carney 11.
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ANDERSON Mary D.
The Medieval Carver. With a Preface by W.G. Constable. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates; original brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference by the eminent ecclesiologist.
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POWELL J.R.
Documents relating to the Civil War 1642-1648. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram ruled and blocked in gilt, navy buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With small blind stamp on front free endpaper. NRS vol. CV.
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FIRTH C.H.
Cromwell's Army. A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. [Facsimile reissue. With a new Introduction by John Adair.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. High-quality facsimile reissue, with fresh introduction, of the third edition of 1921. ALREADY SCARCE.
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HOLE Christina
English Shrines and Sanctuaries. Illustrated by Eric King. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and 8 full-page illustrations and numerous head-pieces in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HOLE Christina
English Home-Life 1500 to 1800. Illustrated from Portraits, Paintings and Prints. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate, 83 sepia-toned plates on 48 and 8 illustrations in the text,; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CROSSLEY Fred H.
English Church Design, 1040-1540 A.D. An Introduction to the Study of Mediaeval Building. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 112 monochrome plates on 63 and several illustrations and plans in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at headband. The publication of this work as a separate volume enabled the author to revise his earlier standard 'English Church Craftsmanship' (1941). The second edition of the latter work in 1947 provided the present volume with a thorough and complementary study.
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VALLANCE Aymer
Greater English Church Screens, being Great Roods, Screenwork and Rood-Lofts in Cathedral, Monastic & Collegiate Churches in England and Wales. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 155 monochrome plates on 100 and very numerous illustrations in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Following the publication of 'English Church Screens' (1936) dealing with parish churches, Vallance began work on this equally comprehensive and scholarly sequel. The text was virtually complete when the author died (in July 1943) and the work was completed and brought to press by Edward T Long. The two works together remain the standard reference.
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BRABANT Frederick Gaspard
The English Lakes. Illustrated by Edmund H New. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates, plans in the text, front endpaper map and 9 folding coloured maps, signature on half-title; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in white and blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end.
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LOWE Joseph
The Present State of England in regard to Agriculture, Trade and Finance [1823]. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Reprints of Economic Classics.
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POUCHER W.A
Over Lakeland Fells. With Photographs by the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, 109 fine sepia-toned plates and 2 double-page maps in the text; pale green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A detailed table of the author's photographic data is included.
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DUTTON Ralph
The English Interior 1500-1900. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 6 coloured plates (one double-page), 164 fine monochrome plates on 96 and numerous illustrations and plans in the text; fore-edges very faintly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Deceptively detailed and extraordinarily well-illustrated study published in Batsford's notable British Art & Buildings series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CRYSTAL David
The Stories of English. With a New Afterword by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps; blue cloth, boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in white and red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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GRIGSON Jane
English Food. Revised and enlarged edition. With Illustrations by Gillian Zeiner. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured plates, line drawings in the text and pictorial endpapers, inscription on half-title; brown tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in darker brown, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged and metricated version of the original edition of 1974. Arguably Grigson's most influential work. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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TURNER W.J.
English Music. [Britain in Pictures series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 21 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Carney 3.
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NEEDHAM A.
How to study an old Church. With an Introduction by J. Littlejohns. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; purple cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. First published in 1944.
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GARDINER Samuel Rawson
History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660. [Complete set]. ABERCONWAY FAMILY COPY WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, and maps in the text; original brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails, hinges of first volume tender (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp set. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LORD ABERCONWAY TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ROSALIND NORMAN WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ABERCONWAY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY LORD ABERCONWAY. The set comprises Vol. I: 1649-1651 (1894); Vol. II: 1651-1654 (1897); Vol. III: 1654-1656 (1901). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 220.
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JENKINS Simon
England's Thousand Best Churches. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs (many full-page) and maps in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, blue silk marker, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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HOSKINS W. G.
The Making of the English Landscape. Introduction by Kewith Thomas. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with frontispiece and photographs in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt back, brown flecked endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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TYRRELL-GREEN E.
Parish Church Architecture. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, plates, and illustrations and map in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; green cloth, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp copy. First published in 1924.
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BURNAP Frank P.
The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs in monochrome and patterned endpapers; black wrappers printed in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILTON Andrew
British Watercolours 1750-1850. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DORAN John
'Their Majesties' Servants'. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe [from the Author's annotated copy]. [Large Paper Edition with plates in duplicate.] LARGE PAPER EDITION IN ROXBURGHE BINDING; 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, ON LARGE PAPER, with 3 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title in red and black, 47 fine copper-engraved portraits (all original tissue guards present), and 80 fine wood-engravings in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original Roxburghe binding of blue cloth boards, maroon cloth backs with new printed paper labels, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 66) WITH ALL PLATES PRESENT IN TWO STATES: ON JAPANESE PAPER AND PLATE PAPER, AS INDIA PROOFS. With personal pictorial boookplate on front paste-downs, and 24pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1887) bound in at end of third volume.
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WALSH John Henry
The English Cookery Book, uniting a good Style with Economy. [?Third Edition.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
12mo., with engraved frontispiece original tissue guard present), and 7 engraved plates, some light age-soiling (mainly marginal) throughout; publisher's dark green pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked in red roan lettered in gilt to style, hand-made endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved copy of a scarce work. This popular and influential work purports to contain 'many unpublished receipts in daily use by private families, collected by a Committee of Ladies'. It was first published in 1858 [Cagle 1045] with a second edition in 1859 [Simon 1595]. The plates depict kitchen implements, trussing and carving. From the Preface we learn that Walsh intended this work as a complement to his 'The English Housekeeper's Book' published in the same year as this edition. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DAVIES Philip
Lost London 1870-1945. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Gloucester. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, many hundreds of fine photographs (many full-page), and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DAVIES Philip
Panoramas of Lost London. Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change 1870-1945. Foreword by Dan Cruickshank. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., with frontispiece, title-vignette, many hundreds of fine photographs (the majority full-page), and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CULPEPPER Nicholas
The English Physician enlarged. with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this. BRIGHT COPY IN PERIOD CALF
12mo., neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and intermittent age-staining to text, title and first two leaves of Table open awkwardly; contemporary mottled calf, sometime rebacked in calf to style, backstrip with black leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards rubbed at edges and corners else a bright, clean copy. Bright copy of the most famous herbal in English, first published in 1652 and commonly known as 'Culpeper's Herbal'. In the following year the author altered the format of his work, apparently to differentiate it from the two well-known piracies issued by Bentley immediately after first publication. VERY SCARCE. Henrey 102.
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TREVELYAN G. M.
Illustrated English Social History. Illustrations selected by Ruth C. Wright. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
4 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces in colour and numerous plates in monochrome; terracotta cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by R.A. Maynard. The set comprises Vol. I: Chaucer's England and the Early Tudors; Vol. II: The Age of Shakespeare and the Stuart Period; Vol. III: The Eighteenth Century; Vol. IV: The Nineteenth Century. Trevelyan's classic survey was first issued with illustrations 1949-1952. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BATSFORD Harry
The Greater English Church of the Middle Ages. Second Edition, Revised. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and plans (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at rear fold-in. Published in Batsford's well-known 'British Heritage' series with splendid wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. First published in 1940. This edition incorporates the authors' final corrections and a revised article on plainsong.
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CROSSLEY Fred H.
English Church Craftsmanship. An Introduction to the Work of the Mediaeval Period and some Account of later Developments. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 coloured plates, 239 monochrome plates on 96 and several illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed and rubbed at extremities. An important volume in Batsford's 'British Heritage' series, with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook.
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QUILLER-COUCH, ed. [Sir] Arthur
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., navy cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt and blind, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon' is written in a neat, scholarly hand on rear free endpaper.
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HOWARD F. E.
English Church Woodwork. A Study in Craftsmanship during the Mediaeval Period. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE STANDARD REFERENCE
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates and illustrations in the text; blue textured cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal armorial bookplate on front paste-down. First published in 1917, this work remains the standard survey and includes indexes by location and county.
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COX J. Charles
Pulpits, Lecterns & Organs in English Churches. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 154 half-tone plates from photographs in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; original powder-blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, an unusually bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Davenant Bookshop of Oxford on front paste-down, and 16pp publisher's catalogue at end. This classic work includes indexes by subject and locality. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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COOK G. H.
The English Medieval Parish Church. [Third Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece, half-tone plates from photographs and plans in the text, neat signature on front paste-down and free endpaper; red buckram, gilt back, red top, mild tape-marks on fold-ins and free endpapers else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. This standard work (first published in 1954) includes a glossary and bibliography.
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BRYANT Arthur
The Medieval Foundation [with] Protestant Island. ['English Social History' complete]. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS WITH BOOKMARK
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions; tweed cloth (green/brown respectively), gilt backs, coloured tops (green/brown respectively), a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Dell'Orco. WITH PUBLISHER'S 'ARTHUR BRYANT' BOOKMARK. The 'English Social History' set comprises: 'The Medieval Foundation' (secomd impression, 1967) and 'Protestant Island' (first impression, 1967).
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ARBER, ed. Edward
More. Utopia [with] Ascham. Toxophilus [with] Ascham. Scholemaster [with] Earle. Micro-Cosmographie [with] Selden. Table Talk [with] Buckingham. Rehearsal. Edited by Edward Arber. SIX ARBER ENGLISH REPRINTS IN ONE VOLUME
6 works in 1 vol., 8vo., with titles in red and black; strongly and attractively bound in contemporary brown crushed half morocco, rose cloth boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green-blue endpapers, a near fine copy. The works comprise: Thomas More. Utopia (Robinson translation 1556), 1869; Roger Ascham. Toxophilus (1545), 1868; Roger Ascham. The Scholemaster (1570 & 1572), 1870; John Earle. Micro-Cosmographie (1628, 1629, 1633), 1868; John Selden. Table Talk (1689), 1868; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The Rehearsal (1672), 1868. Arber English Reprints Nos. 14, 7, 23, 12, 6, 10 respectively. VERY SCARCE.
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HILL Christopher
God's Englishman. Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Introduced by Tristram Hunt. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper plans; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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WILSON Derek
The King and the Gentleman. Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ENGLISH John
Afridi to Nizam. British Fleet Destroyers 1937-43. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Detailed biographies of the 'Tribals' and 'J' to 'N' classes. SCARCE.
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PERCY Thomas
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. [Introduction by Ernest Rhys.] NEAR FINE SET OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN EVERYMAN
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, backs gilt extra, dark tops, pictorial endpapers, a near fine set. With uniform bookplates on front paste-downs. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. EL 148, 149; Seymour 775.0, 776.0.
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WILLIAMS Iolo Aneurin
Early English Watercolours and some Cognate Drawings by Artists born not later than 1785. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and 200 monochrome plates depicting 412 images; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1952.
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ASHLEY Maurice
John Wildman. Plotter and Postmaster. A Study of the English Republican Movement in the Seventeenth Century. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; navy cloth, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BONNEY, ed.] [Prof. T. G.
The Cathedrals of England and Wales. Their History, Architecture and Associations. With a Series of Rembrandt Plates. FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine frontispieces (original tissue guards present), titles in red and black, fine plates (all original tissue guards present), and many hundreds of photographs and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original blue coarse-grain cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title and crozier in gilt, gilt backs, ivory endpapers, red sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. Splendid survey, profusely illustrated and with many eminent contributors. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WEDGWOOD C. V.
The King's Peace 1637-1641 [with] The King's War 1641-1647 [with] The Trial of Charles I. [The English Civil War complete.]. Introduction by Richard Ollard. [Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott. Index compiled by Meg Davies.] NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, burgundy tops and endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. The volumes of Wedgwood's classic trilogy were first published in 1955, 1958 and 1964 respectively. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BATSFORD Harry
The English Cottage. Second Edition, revised. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates toned in sepia and illustrations in the text; yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered ingreen, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's well-known 'Face of Britain' series with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. First issued in 1938. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE INCREASINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JEFFREY John V.
Cromwell's Deputy. The Life and Times of General Charles Fleetwood. Foreword by Dame Joan Fleetwood Varley. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unc;lipped dustwrapper. Surprisingly, the first dedicated biography of the man most likely to have been Cromwell's true successor.
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COOK G. H.
English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 45 plates and 41 plans; original blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference. The fourth, final and by far the scarcest of Cook's comprehensive survey of English church buildings and their contents. Covering the period from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, it includes much detail on structure, duties and privileges in addition to plan and architecture. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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COOK G. H.
Medieval Chantries and Chantry Chapels. {Revised Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece, plates and plans in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First issued in 1947, Cook's standard reference was substantially revised and enlarged for this best edition.
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