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Perkins Rev. Jocelyn

Westminster Abbey. Its Worship and Ornaments. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS WITH A.L.s

Oxford University Press [for the Alcuin Club], 1938

223,10 €

Island Books

(Devon, Regno Unito)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1938
Autore
Perkins Rev. Jocelyn
Editori
Oxford University Press [for the Alcuin Club]
Soggetto
topography, london, westminster, abbies, church architecture, architecture, liturgy, jocelyn perkins
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 frontispieces and 82 plates and plans, neat signature on front free free endpaper of third volume; l printed boards, green cloth backs gilt, uncut (first two volumes), green cloth, gilt back (third volume), a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper to first volume clean set in dustwrapper (wrappers of first two volumes faded at backstrip). WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED IN FIRST VOLUME. Arguably the finest modern description of the Abbey, this archeo-liturgical study concentrates on the post-reformation period. The numerous changes to the choir and high altar are given in detail, including Wren's classical reredos, its destruction and its successors, the sedilia, the transept screens, the destruction of the thirteenth-century choir stalls and the revolutionary changes of 1848. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.