Collins Guide to English Parish Churches
Language: English
Published by Collins, London, 1958
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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8vo., publisher’s original glazed black cloth, titles stamped in gilt to spine; upper edge stained red; pictorial dustwrapper designed in colour by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (unclipped, 30s. net to front flap); pp. [viii], 9-480; with 64 monochrome plates, and including an Index and Glossary; a near fine copy, lightly bumped and discoloured to foot of spine; ever-so-slight toning mostly affecting the endpapers; some minor dark marking to the lower edge of the text block; the wrapper with small chip to foot of spine on wrapper, sometime repaired internally with tape; a little spotting to the lower panel; some light nicks and chips to ends of folds. First edition. This a Presentation copy, contemporaneously inscribed by the author to the title page - with his charmingly puckish wit - : “Iain MacBetjeman / in / the achins of the North / Caledonia / 1959”. An interesting work on the churches of England, which benefits greatly from Betjeman’s knowledgeable editorship and introduction. This influential publication presents the first remarkably thorough and accessible guide to a comprehensive selection of over 4000 glorious and distinctive buildings across the UK. In particular, this work is notable for drawing attention to what was at the time an under-appreciated facet of our architectural heritage, and at a phase of increasingly diminishing national faith and regular Sunday church attendance which prevails to this day. “Three ghosts inhabit all English churches. They are those of John Betjeman, Alec Clifton-Taylor and Nicklaus Pevsner.” - Simon Jenkins in ‘England’s Thousand Best Churches’. …
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- Title
- Collins Guide to English Parish Churches
- Author
- [BETJEMAN, John, ed.]
- Publisher
- Collins, London
- Publication year
- 1958
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- inscribed by author
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- Edition
- first edition.
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