Author: BOUTELL, CHARLES
Title: The Monumental Brasses of England: A Series of Engravings on Wood, from Every Variety of These Interesting and Valuable Memorials, Accompanied with Brief Descriptive Notices
Description: George Bell, 1849. Hardcover . Ill.: R.B. Utting. Large octavo, blind-stamped, cloth, gilt, fronts. xii + 53pp. followed by another 147 plates (of 149) full-page illustrations: Brasses of Ecclesiastics, Cross-Brasses, and Bracket Brasses (45/45), Brasses of Knights and others in Armour, and of Ladies (70/71, one of the 70 bound as fronts.) Brasses of Civilians and Ladies (30/30) Miscellaneous Brasses, Remains of a Canopy (3/3). Spine faded and worn at edges, more heavily at head; foxing, heavy at a few leaves, these generally text, and not illustrations, where the effects are much less remarkable. Early leaves with some insect predation at bottom edge, cosmetic only. One plate starting but holding. A perfectly usable copy with the armorial bookplate of Frederick Fakington. Heavy: please ask for shipping rate if outside Spain. Fair.

Keywords: Religious Ecclesiastical Genealogy R.B.


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