Winkles's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales; The Drawings Made from Sketches Taken Expressly for This Work. By Robert Garland, Architect. With Descriptions By Thomas Moule. [3 Volumes]
London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, n.d. / Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1838 / Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1842, [1836-1842]. Original Cloth. Quarto. Very Good. Item #33187
3 volumes. Pp. [4], xx, 144 + 60 steel engravings. Some plates drawn by Hablot Browne.; viii, 140 + 59 steel engravings.; xii, 160 + 59 steel engravings. All volumes have added engraved half-title. Original blind-stamped navy-blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, yellow coated endpapers. Peerage stamp to front pastedowns in each volume with initials J.D., otherwise interiors and plates very clean and bright. Very good, square, clean set. "From drawings made expressly for the work by R. Garland, T.H. Shepherd, C. Warren, B. Baud, &c. &c. with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the various Edifices, Notices of the most Distinguished Prelates, &c., and an Essay on the Architectural Peculiarities of each of the Cathedrals. [178 steel engravings] comprising General Views, Interiors, Ground Plans, remarkable Monuments, &c." - from a contemporary advert sheet loosely inserted.
Price (CAD): $1,000.00