Westminster Abbey & The King’s Craftsmen - by W R Lethaby, 1906
Delivery Quote Request
Please fill in the form below to request a delivery quote from Baggott Church Street Ltd.
Contact Baggott Church Street Ltd
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
01451 830370 or 01451 831106 01451 831106 Visit dealer's websiteSimply fill in the below form to get in touch with Baggott Church Street Ltd regarding this item.
About this item
Westminster Abbey & The King’s Craftsmen - Author’s copy, given by William Lethaby to Robert Weir Schultz
Rare and antiquarian books: A Study of Medieval Building by W.R.Lethaby. Published London: Duckworth & Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1906. An account of the artists, carpenters, sculptors, painters and other craftsmen who built it and decorated it. 124 illustrations throughout, including a frontispiece of King Richard ll, from the portrait attributed to André Beauneveu in Westminster Abbey. Bookplate to front pastedown for the architect Robert Weir Schultz dated 1899 and inscribed by the author, ‘To R W Schultz from WRL Xmas 1906 with love’. Green cloth boards with gilt Royal Arms of England of three lions passant guardant to the front and gilt title and image of fish to spine. Uncut pages. Foxing to frontispiece but tissue intact. Mild fading to spine and upper edge of front board and small scuff to back board, but tight spine, clean pages and a very good+ copy.
8vo: H. 9 ½” (24cm) W. 6 ¾” (17cm)
English, 1906
Additional Information
16048 (AB-14198)
W: 6.8" (17.3 cm)H: 9.5" (24.1 cm)
19th Century, Unknown
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom