Item #23340 The Kirk And The Manse;; Sixty Illustrative Views In Tinted Lithography Of The Most Interesting And Romantic Parish Kirks And Manses In Scotland: With Descriptive And Historical Notices, And An Introduction. Robert W. Fraser.
The Kirk And The Manse;; Sixty Illustrative Views In Tinted Lithography Of The Most Interesting And Romantic Parish Kirks And Manses In Scotland: With Descriptive And Historical Notices, And An Introduction
The Kirk And The Manse;; Sixty Illustrative Views In Tinted Lithography Of The Most Interesting And Romantic Parish Kirks And Manses In Scotland: With Descriptive And Historical Notices, And An Introduction

The Kirk And The Manse;; Sixty Illustrative Views In Tinted Lithography Of The Most Interesting And Romantic Parish Kirks And Manses In Scotland: With Descriptive And Historical Notices, And An Introduction

Edinburgh, London, And Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co., 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 231 pages. 30 x 25 cm. The word "kirk" is a Saxon term, and "manse" is an abbreviation of mansion, both are household terms in Scotland. The twenty-five tinted plates are bright and clean as is the text. Most specimens of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland are Norman or Romanesque. Armorial bookplate of William Livingstone Jr., front pastedown cover. Front cover decorated in blind and gilt, spine lettered in floral and varying gilt motifs. Binding is solid, spine sunned. Orig. publisher cloth, yapp edges. Aeg. Very good. Item #23340

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