1847 Instrumenta Ecclesiastica

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

The scarce first edition. In a smart half calf binding with gilt detail. With sixty-six out of the original seventy-two plates. A large collection of working drawings of details and fittings appertaining to churches and their precincts. Including floor plans, furniture designs and detailed iron work. Selected by the Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society from ancient examples. adaptations and original designs. With a facsimile title page, half title page and contents page bound into the volume. Lacking the originals. Lacking the publisher's advertisement to the rear of the book. With a bookplate to the front paste-down.