SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF St. Peter and St. Paul at Dorchester, OXFORDSHIRE
Published by Published for The Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker in Oxford 1845
SKU: 49759
£40.00
FIRST EDITION 8vo. brown textured cloth hardback, gilt, with blind-embossed decoration to boards. xii, 172pp. plus 4pp. List of Subscribers to Proposed Restoration of Dorchester Abbey Church. Illustrated with b/w plates and vignettes within text. Also has an extra engraved plate of the New Bridge (1816) tipped in to early blank, small b/w photo of a church window pasted to ffep, and loose old b/w photo postcard of the Jesse Window. Ink signatures to front endpapers and modern armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Some foxing throughout, occasionally heavy. First gather a little loose and inner hinge weak. Covers rather rubbed and worn with damage to top and base of spine. Overall a Good, Sound Copy.