1932 English Mediaeval Painted Glass

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Later edition, originally published in 1926. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-seven images across twenty-eight plates, and five in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed historical study of the stained glasswork of the Mediaeval period in England. With chapters on the making of a painted glass window, the glass painters of the time, religious life and its influence, subjects of painted glass, secular or domestic glazing, the history of destruction, the preservation of glass, and more. Including records of various important eras during the Mediaevel period. Written by John Dolbel Le Couteur, a British art historian, mediaevalist, and author of multiple books on stained glass.