Hardcover. Condition: New. Inspired by the work of Robert Dunning, the pre-eminent historian of Somerset, this collection of thirteen essays by friends and colleagues reflects Dunning's broad range of interests from the medieval cult of saints to 18th-century cartography. Other topics include Kingston iuxta Yeovil in 1633, the pecuniary problems of Thomas Carew (1703-66), and monastic revival in Somerset from the Henrician Dissolution to the Second Vatican Council.
Language: English
Published by Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2013
ISBN 10: 0902152211 ISBN 13: 9780902152212
Seller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA, ABA, Iver, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. xl, 192, c. 400 drawings. 304x213mm. HB. As new. Harvey Pridham's survey of Somerset church fonts, carried out over a century ago, has been edited by Adrian Webb, with a foreword by Julian Orbach, and includes descriptions and line drawings made by Pridham of Somerset's ancient church fonts. Between 1886 and 1907 Pridham drew 374 measured line drawings and 49 perspective drawings of Somersets pre-Victorian fonts, as well as recording fonts he found outside churches. [9780902152212].