VALLANCE, AYMER.
English Church Screens. Being Great Roods, Screenwork & Rood-Lofts Of Parish Churches in England & Wales. By Aymer Vallance .
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 15, North Audley Street, 1936 . 0. 1st edition. "The value of this book lies not only in what it tells us about existing screenwork in the Churches, but also in its record of what we have lost, particularly in the last two centures. Reformers and Puritans were it is only too true, cruelly destructive and wrought incalculable devastation among the accumulated treasures of the ages of Faith, but the blame for what we have lost beyond recall must not be laid entirely at their door, and this Vallance makes abundantly clear by his text and illustrations." 26.5cms x 19cms. pp.xii /pp.103/[1p. - Index to Footnotes..] + 288 plates and colour frontis, + other b/w illustrations to text. Green cloth with gilt titles to front board andspine.Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Green patterned endpapers, with some foxing. Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG.
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Keywords: 52063 Vallance English Church Sreeens Roods Screenwork Rood-Lofts Cathedral Monastic Collegiate England Wales Batsford Illustrated Architecture Architecture: : Church