1884 Mediaeval Military Architecture

Description

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

The two volume first edition of this work.

A beautifully illustrated insight into the military architecture of the mediaeval period in England.

In signed half calf Morrell bindings.

Illustrated with sixteen plates to volume I and forty-eight to volume II, including folding plates, and with further vignette illustrations. 

Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Liberal Tory politician and a Member of Parliament Charles Wynne to each front pastedown.
 
With the bookplate of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front pastedowns. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England.