Item #900963 Chronological Chart of Anglican Church Architecture (Folding Chart with Colored Lithographs). Engraver, Lithographer, Francis Bedford, R. Sunter, Publisher.
Chronological Chart of Anglican Church Architecture (Folding Chart with Colored Lithographs)

Chronological Chart of Anglican Church Architecture (Folding Chart with Colored Lithographs)

York, England: R. Sunter, 1844.
Illustrations by and after Francis Bedford. Hardcover.

Published as the Act Directs, March 1844. 15-1/4 x 21-3/4" linen-backed folding chart depicting the chronology of Anglican church architecture with fifteen 5 x 4-3/8" folding sections.

The timeline stretches from 600 to 1640 with four columns:  Name of Style; Reign; AD (Year); Illustrative Examples; Characteristics.

The periods/styles encompass: Anglo Saxon (600-1066); Anglo-Norman (1066-1134); Transition or Semi-Norman (1134-1139); Early English or Lancet (1139-1272); Decorated (1272-1377); Perpendicular Florid or Plantagenet (1377-1435); Tudor (1435-1547); and Debased (1547-1640).

Item #900963

5-1/2 x 4-5/8" case with green cloth over boards, green decorated endpapers, fifteen 5 x 4-3/8" engraved lithographs on flexible linen folded into the case.

Rubbing to endpapers, rubbing and a bit of edge-wear to green cloth, very light foxing to chart, a remarkably bright and exceptional copy of fragile item, very good indeed.

Price: $250.00