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WILDRIDGE, T. Tindall THE MISERERES OF BEVERLEY MINSTER A COMPLETE SERIES OF DRAWINGS OF THE SEAT CARVINGS IN THE CHOIR OF ST. JOHN'S, BEVERLEY, YORKSHIRE; WITH NOTES ON THE PLATES AND SUBJECTS
Hull J. Plaxton, Printer and Lithographer 1879 Hardcover
Original half-leather with raised bands, blind-stamped ornamental leaves, black leather label and gilt lettering on spine; lightly rubbed. A. E. G. Marbled endpapers. Original Francis Frith photo frontis of Beverley Minster. 74 lithographic plates of detailed drawings of the mediaeval carvings found on the movable choir seats. A few neat contemporary corrections noted in margin. "Misereres may be considered the most important and instructive of ornaments... Being generally designs independent of the objects on which they are placed, they lose conventionality, and are therefore nearer to strict portraiture and truth. Being also, concealed from vulgar gaze, --enwrapped in minster gloom, --their authors were unconstrained by motives of prudence or delicacy; satire being prominent features in carvings of this class..." A very good copy of this scarce work. ; Small 4to
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255.00 USD
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