By Frederick Bligh Bond; Dom Bede Camm
London   Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons LTD
11.5" by 9" xiii, [3], 3-205; x, [2], 209-448pp
The first edition of this extensively illustrated study on the architectural features of medieval churches, a wonderful work on rood screens and rood lofts.
By Frederick Bligh Bond; Dom Bede Camm

1909 Roodscreens and Roodlofts

London   Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons LTD
11.5" by 9" xiii, [3], 3-205; x, [2], 209-448pp
The first edition of this extensively illustrated study on the architectural features of medieval churches, a wonderful work on rood screens and rood lofts.
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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition.

Complete in two volumes.

An extensive study into the architectural features of rood screens and rood lofts within churches, a thorough work that took the authors seven years to research. 

Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece and sixty-eight plates.

Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece and sixty-three plates.

Collated, complete.

Errata bound in after page vi of Volume I. 

By Frederick Bligh Bond and Dom Bede Camm. 

An ex-institutional copy from the Trinity College Library Oxford, with labels to the front paste downs and ink inscription to the recto to the front endpapers, and the occasional stamp to the text.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, spines, joints, and extremities are faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spines. Front hinges are starting but firm. Institutional label to the front paste downs and stamps to the recto to the front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some odd spots. Closed tear to plate VIII of Volume I. Institutional stamp to a few pages of text and a couple of plates, including the title pages.

Very Good

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