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1. Add MS 39912-39916

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Add MS 39912-39916
Title:
ROWE COLLECTIONS. Vols. I-V. " Memorial Floor-Slabs in England and Wales [some Scotch examples from Drummond's Sculptured Monuments in Vol.IV.]. A collection of original drawings,designed to illustrate the methods of sepulture in mediæval times." The first four volumes were prepared for the press and provided with title pages in the above form, dated 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882. Each volume has a separate introduction, that in Vol. I being the printed paper as in the Reports of .... the Associate...
Scope & Content:
Antiquities: Drawings of memorial floor-slabs, by Rev. G. Rowe: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1882
Extent:
5 items

2. Add MS 39917-39919

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Add MS 39917-39919
Title:
ROWE COLLECTIONS. Vols. VI-VIII. " Ornamental Glazing Quarries, from original tracings." Prepared as for printing, with elaborate illuminated title pages and coloured initials in the text. Drawings of 447 quarries, in water colours. The prefaces to the separate volumes are dated: I. " Feb. 1850. St. John's Coll. : Cambridge " ;II. " York 1863 (' the collection .... was made nearly ten years since')"; III. " York 1876." Ff. 148, 195, 178. Octavo. Bound in calf.
Scope & Content:
City of York: Drawings of glass quarries in churches in: 19th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Rev. G. Rowe, illuminated title-pages and decorative initials in colours: 19th cent. Antiquities: Drawings of ornamental glazing quarries, by Rev. G. Rowe: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1876
Extent:
3 items

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