Bath Abbey: A History :: Kenneth Hylson-Smith soon to be presented for sale on the outstanding BookLovers of Bath web site!
Bath: Friends of Bath Abbey, 2003, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; Appendices (2);
From the cover: This book is timely and much needed. It is the first comprehensive history of Bath Abbey to appear since the nineteenth century. Described by the former Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, as excellent, it makes compelling reading. Three features have especially contributed to the deserved high reputation of Bath: the Roman Baths, the eighteenth-century architecture of some of its magnificent streets and crescents and the Abbey. The first two of these have received extensive attention and are the subject of many specialist works, both academic and popular. The Abbey alone of the three suffers …
Introduction by: George Carey
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. (x) 214 pages. Index. Bibliography. 10″ x 7″.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I lure you to view a further assortment that features in my Local History catalogue?
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