Descrizione

13 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with coloured or sepia-toned frontispieces and very numerous sepia-toned plates, some light and occasional spotting; coloured cloth, upper boards lettered in gilt enclosing mounted coloured illustrations (not repeated in text), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean and elegant run. Published in the early 1930s, Raphael Tuck's 'Cathedral Story' series provides accessible and easily-written accounts of the great English Cathedals and Minsters. The authors, always well-informed, were almost exclusively senior clergy of their respective institutions, and the plates are well-chosen and atmospheric. In particular, the cover watercolour illustrations are quite charming and the series as A whole has an attractive and elegant feel. This run comprises A.S. Duncan-Jones: Chichester Cathedral (1ed. 1933. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), Horace Munroe: Southwark Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Margaret A. Babington: Canterbury Cathedral (2ed. 1934), Charles C. Bell: York Minster (1ed. 1931), E.G. Swain: Peterborough Cathedral (1ed. 1932), J.H. Srawley: Lincoln Minster (1ed. 1933), Arthur Huxley Thompson: Exeter Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Lawrence E. Tanner: Westminster Abbey (1ed. 1932), Richard H. Malden: Wells Cathedral (2ed. 1938), Charles C. Bell: Fountains Abbey (1ed. 1932), J.M.J. Fletcher: Salisbury Cathedral (1ed. 1933), E.G. Selwyn: Winchester Cathedral (1ed. 1934), Maurice H. Fitzgerald: Bristol Cathedral (1ed. 1936). GOOD RUNS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.