Lawrence E. Tanner — Unknown Westminster Abbey
Harmondsworth Middlesex, Penguin , 1948. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of Lawrence Tanner's illustrated study of Westminster Abbey, bound in modern crushed half morocco by Syd. A. Howe. The first edition.Bound in modern crushed half morocco by Syd. A. Howe with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. Illustrated with sixty-four monochrome plates. Collated, complete. A detailed study of Westminster Abbey by Laurence Tanner, focussing on its history, interior design, antiquities and architecture. Bound in crushed half morocco with marbled paper to the boards. Externally lovely with only the odd slight mark. Binder's stamp to the front pastedown, with a tidemark to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright pages and the odd spot, heavier to the title page. Near Fine . Ill.: None stated. Near Fine .