Westminster Abbey
PERKINS, Rev. Jocelyn
COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS WITH A.L.s
Published: Oxford University Press [for the Alcuin Club], [1938-40-52]
Stock code: 27772
Price: £194.00
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 frontispieces and 82 plates and plans, neat signature on front free free endpaper of third volume; l printed boards, green cloth backs gilt, uncut (first two volumes), green cloth, gilt back (third volume), a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper to first volume clean set in dustwrapper (wrappers of first two volumes faded at backstrip).
WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED IN FIRST VOLUME. Arguably the finest modern description of the Abbey, this archeo-liturgical study concentrates on the post-reformation period. The numerous changes to the choir and high altar are given in detail, including Wren's classical reredos, its destruction and its successors, the sedilia, the transept screens, the destruction of the thirteenth-century choir stalls and the revolutionary changes of 1848. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.