1917 London Churches Before the Great Fire

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Scarce in the original unclipped dustwrapper.

With 20 leaves of illustrated plates. Collated, complete.

The illustrations are reproductions of prints and drawings from engraver and photographer Sir Emery Walker, a friend of William Morris and a man active in the Arts and Crafts movement.

Covering the period between the dissolution of the monasteries and the Great Fire of London, author Wilberforce Jenkinson chronicles the history of London Churches. Combining descriptions from sixteenth and seventeenth century literature with parish records and state papers, Jenkinson covers, amongst others, Westminster Abbey and the old St Paul's.