BARE RUINED CHOIRS: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1st thus. 1976
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The book examines the changing economic and religious climate as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression. The fate of the monastic buildings and lands and of the religious themselves is described in full, and numerous engravings and photographs illuminate this account of the transition from splendour to desolation. An abridged edition of The Religious Orders in England, III: The Tudor Age first published in 1959. Book Club Edition. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title in burgundy title block to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 329 pages including index.
Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some minor foxing present and a musty odour. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.
Stock no. 1831254
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