Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter dark olive morocco and matching aubergine cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. Unpaginated. 25 x 16 cm. Ninety-eight plates on India paper. Scattered. marginal plate toning. text generally clean, offsetting to Vol.II title and frontispiece. A review of English church architecture including screens, fonts and monuments. "The churches more fully illustrated here are those of Great and Little Malvern, St. Alban's, Shrewsbury, and Tewksbury Abbeys, the Churches of Stratford-upon-Avon, Croydon, Yarmouth, Thaxted, Cirencester, Melford, and Lavenham, with the principal churches of Oxford and Cambridge." Backstrip gilt lettering bright and fresh, calligraphic owner lettering Vol. I free endpaper.