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Synopsis

With thirty-two plates. (king penguin. 75).

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. 40 pp. In pictorial stiff card boards, in matching unclipped dust wrapper, which has edge wear at head and tail of spine. The front boards has some lower edge wear and a little page edge foxing; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 32 pages of tinted plates. Decorated by title page and endpiece vignettes. Dust wrapper designed by John Griffiths. King Penguin introduction to the subject of English monumental brasses found in ecclesiastical buildings. By James Mann (1897-1962, who served as Master of the Armouries at the Tower of London and Director of the Wallace Collection.