Author: Violet Brooke-Hunt
Title: The Story of Westminster Abbey: Being Some Account of That Ancient Foundation, Its Builders and Those Who Sleep Therein
Description: London, James Nisbet & Co. 1904. Leather. A smart early copy of this illustrated history of Westminster Abbey, written by English social working Violet Brooke-Hunt. Sixth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-one plates. Collated complete. A comprehensive history of Westminster Abbey, from the Saxons and Normans at Westminster, through various reigns, the Wars of the Roses, and the Stuarts, to contemporary times. Includes reference to the monuments with chapters on Chaucer, Doctor Johnson, Pitt, Lawrence, Dickens, Browning, Tennyson, and more. Written by Violet Edith Gwynllyn Brooke-Hunt, an English writer and social worker. Bound by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. Bound in full red calf. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the leather at the front joint from rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. School prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Bound by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Story Westminster Abbey Brooke-Hunt Westminster Not Stated


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