Buy this book on-line BRABBS, DERRY: : ABBEYS AND MONASTRIESLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1999. ISBN 0297824953.
UK,slim landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of creasing is to top rear edge of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,
clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,weave-textured,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour photographic eps (internal roof of Peterborough Cathedral).UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-160pp [paginated] includes author's separate preface+intro,colour map (Britain,showing locations of monastries+ cathedrals),5 sections/chapters,profuse landscape/scenic and internal architecture colour photographs throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] colour photographic half-title (Thornton Abbey),colour photographic frntis (Tintern Abbey) opposite the title page and a contents list/table.
Despite Henry VIII's decade of architectural destruction during the Dissolution,Britain has hundreds of surviving examples of monastic buildings,
varying in size and scale from forlorn and crumbling fragments to the well-preserved majestic ruins of abbeys such as Fountains,Lindisfarne,Glastonbury and Tintern.In addition,some of Britain's finest churches and cathedrals are monastic in origin,exhibiting the stunning craftsmanship associated with Romanesque and early medieval religious architecture.
Complementing Derry Brabbs's superb photography,his text examines the history of the monastries: the great period of building in the 11th and 12th centuries; the Dissolution; the different monastic orders; and the abbeys,cathedrals and parish churches that once formed part of a monastic establishment.
'Abbeys and Monastries' celebrates the history,architecture and settings of Britain's monastic heritage,from the romance of vast medieval ruins to the grandeur of living cathedrals and abbeys.
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