Sharp Thomas a C Cawley (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Reprint. 226pp. Folio [35.5cm]. Bound in bright red cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Cloth a bit bubbled near the top of each board, likely a publishing flaw. Spine ends are gently bumped. Ex-library, with a few internal markings. A handful of pages are uncut. In a rubbed and mildly soiled dust jacket. A photographic reproduction of the original 1825 edition. With striking illustrations. Thomas Sharp was a native of Coventry in England. His grand aim was to compile a complete history of his native city. This text compiles his intensive research into Coventry's pageants, or performed dramatic mysteries, during the medieval era. Special attention is paid to accounts of the Coventry companies, or guilds. Much of the source material for Sharp's dissertation was housed in the Staunton Collection of Coventry manuscripts, and unfortunately destroyed in a fire at the Birmingham Free Reference Library in 1879. The 1825 edition was released in an edition of less than 350, and this reprint has also become quite scarce.