[Rarebooks] FS: 1849 Funeral Monuments are Gift from HELL Booklet

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[Gravestones]  Armstrong, Rev. John.  A Paper on Monuments.  $150

Published in Oxford by John Henry Parker; in London by Rivingtons; and 
by Weale Architectural Library in Holborn, in 1849.

The Rev. Armstrong was vicar of Exeter Cathedral; this is the text of a 
paper he read at an 1843 meeting of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural 
Society. The good Rev. Armstrong, in common with many of his day, found 
almost everything in the way of church and memorial ornament that came 
after about the 14th century as hopelessly depraved and ill-suited to 
places of Godly worship, with the nadir being reached in the 18th 
century, from which point the architects and decorators of the early 
19th century dug the pit further down towards Hell.

Softcover. 5.5”x8.5”, 24 pages, 2 black & white plates. Some soil and 
light wear, spine splitting.  [45271]


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