Author: FELLOWES (W. D. [William Dorset]):
Title: Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, In 1817: With Notes, Taken During A Tour Through La Perce, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou.And The Environs Of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. Second Edition.
Description: London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1818. 1818. Tall 8vo, 222 x 136 mms., pp. xii, 186, 13 hand-coloured aquatints, one engraved vignette within texts, one outline, contemporary half calf, spine embossed in blind, red morocco label, marbled boards; slight wear to binding, but the plates are fresh and clean, with bright, unfaded colours. A very good copy The Monastery of La Trappe began as a small chapel in 1122; it grew and prospered over the next six hundred years or so, until the Hundred Years War. After the French Revolution, the government sold it as national property. It was rebuilt in the 1880s and re-opened as an abbey imn 1895. Fellowes' splendid illustrations at an unfortunate time impressive represent what happened.

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