Author: CUTTS Rev. Edward L.
Title: An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: John Crockford,, 1854. 8vo., First Edition, with 10 coloured, tinted and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, small, neat contemporary signature on title; original blue cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp advertisement (unopened) for the Clerical Journal bound in at end. With the armorial bookplate of Christopher T Perowne and contemporary trade ticket of Fletcher & Alexander of Norwich on front paste-down. The signature on the title is that the Rev. J. Spurgeon Green, sometime vicar of St. Mark's Marylebone. Cutts' valuable essay was written originally as a supplement to the Clerical Journal. Its importance was recognised immediately and he was urged to produce a revised and augmented version with additional woodcuts and the ten famous plates. A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE TREATISE.

Keywords: english church architecture, architecture, ecclesiology, edward cutts, church furniture, church decoration


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