Adams, Henry — Mont Saint Michel And Chartres

Houghton Mifflin Company 1930 19th impression. Cloth spined boards, VG. xiv+401pp, colour frontis, 12 b/w plates, index, Ex Libris the Earl of Belmore with his signature dated 1937, cloth a little rubbed to the head & tail of the spine, corners bumped, paper a little yellowed at the corners, otherwise a nice copy. Adams' celebrated mix of history, architecture & religion in which he describes the Medieval ideaology as as expressed in the cathedrals of France. The cathedrals to him expressed 'an emotion, the deepest man ever felt - the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite'.