Stained Glass of the Middle Ages
In England and France. Painted by Lawrence Saint and Described by Hugh Arnold.
A & C Black, 1913.
First edition, secondary binding with no gilt on the upper cover. 4to. Brown pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in yellow on the upper cover. Fifty colour illustrations under captioned tissue guards. A very good copy, sight bubbling to the cloth, text block browned and rear hinge tender.
One of 3,000 copies, originally published at 25/-.
"Seneca mentions [stained glass] as one of the luxuries which had been introduced into life in his time, but which did not really add to a philosopher's happiness" p.17
Inman 683.
Stock ID: 45127
£65.00
