Bushell W D 1871 1948 (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BUSHELL, W.D. (1871-1948) The Church of St. Mary the Great - The University Church at Cambridge. Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes. 1948. 8vo. First edition. 223 pp. Softback. No further edition noted. Original publisher's covers with b/w photograph on the front. Clean and solid condition. Contents clean, crisp and unmarked, with 11 clean illustrations. A very nice copy! "Mr Bushell's admirable and scholarly account of Great St Mary's, which makes full use of surviving original material. So far as any one church can claim to be the birthplace of the English Reformation, St Mary's is that church. Barnes, Latimer, Ridley, Shaxton and Sandys are among the Protestant pioneers and martyrs who preached from the pulpit. It would be difficult to obtain readily a better notion of the importance of the sermon than that gained by following Mr Bushell's narrative of the succession of preachers, their topics and their fates from the days of Henry VIII to those of Edward VIII." - H.M. Cam (Harvard Univ.).…

Softcover. xv, 223 p.; 11 pl.; 21.5 cm. Old church rebuilt between 1478-1519. A few front edges chafed Good, sewn, in orig. tan card covers. Corner of ffep torn off.