An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration
CUTTS, Rev. Edward L.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: John Crockford, 1854
Stock code: 14651
Price: £160.00
8vo., First Edition, with 10 coloured, tinted and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, small, neat contemporary signature on title; original blue cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy.
With 8pp advertisement (unopened) for the Clerical Journal bound in at end. With the armorial bookplate of Christopher T Perowne and contemporary trade ticket of Fletcher & Alexander of Norwich on front paste-down. The signature on the title is that the Rev. J. Spurgeon Green, sometime vicar of St. Mark's Marylebone. Cutts' valuable essay was written originally as a supplement to the Clerical Journal. Its importance was recognised immediately and he was urged to produce a revised and augmented version with additional woodcuts and the ten famous plates. A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE TREATISE.