1836 ARCHITECTURE 1ed Winkles Cathedral Churches 178 Steel Plates England Wales

1836 ARCHITECTURE 1^ed Winkles Cathedral Churches 178 Steel Plates England Wales

Benjamin Winkles’s ‘Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches’ is without question the best and most important early 19^th-century collection of engravings of English cathedrals. These illustrations depict the iconic facades as well as the structural feats and decorative architecture inside each cathedral – columns, crypts, archways, and spires.

Item number: #21527

Price: $795

WINKLES,  Benjamin

Winkles’s architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales;

London, Tilt and Bogue, 1836-1842. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • Volume I- [4], xx, 144
    • 60 engravings, plus engraved title page
  • Volume II- vii, 140
    • 59 engravings, plus engraved title page
  • Volume III- xii, 160
    • 59 engravings, plus engraved title page
  • Filled with Full-page engravings throughout
• Provenance: Handwritten – Wade Gery
  • Possibly Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, MC, FBA (1888–1972), known as Theodore Wade-Gery or H. T. Wade-Gery, was a classical scholar, historian and epigrapher. From 1939 to 1953, he was Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He was also the father of Sir Robert Wade-Gery KCMG KCVO (1929 –2015), a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India 1982–87.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~12.5in X 9.75in (31.5cm x 25cm)

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