| General Notes | An Historical and Architectural Essay Relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol. Illustrated with Plans, Views and Architectural Details: including an account of the monuments, and anecdotes of the eminent persons interred within its walls: also, an essay on the life and character of Thomas Chatterton, by J. Britton, F.S.A.
Longman, Hurst etc., London, 1813 (1st edition). Large format, approx. 30cm x 23.5cm. Green/blue paper boards. xii + 40 pages plus ‘Works on Fine Arts’ (4 pages).
Britton’s volume on the splendid fourteenth century Gothic church of St.Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol, first published in 1813 and incorporating a series of perspective views of the church’s exterior and interior from drawings by Charles Wild and others, and plans etc. (12 tissue-guarded full-page illustrations). The last chapter is concerned with the poet Thomas Chatterton, who had a close association with the church.
Boards and spine worn, some loss to spine ends. Some foxing, mainly to tissue-guards and related pages.
A relatively scarce volume. |