An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England.

Published by Cambridge; [Cambridge University Press], 1912., 1912

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Quarto, pp., xi, [1], 734, plus 855 black-and-white photographs within text. Publisher's brown buckram; titled in gilt to spine; top edge gilt; white end-papers. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Francis Saxham Elwes Drury to front paste-down. Spot of light soiling approx 2cm across to upper board; cloth on upper board a little cockled to head; rectangular shadow to lower board; corners bumped but binding otherwise strong and square. Internally clean, and free of annotations or inscriptions. A very good copy. A well-illustrated scholarly account of medieval sculpture from 650-1550. The book is divided into sections on the materials and practice of sculpture, the history of sculpture, and sepulchural effigies. The former owner, Francis Saxham Elwes Drury (d. 1941) was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Windsor.

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Bibliographic details

Title
An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England.
Author
Prior, Edward. S.
Publisher
Cambridge; [Cambridge University Press], 1912.
Publication year
1912

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