Modern Books and Manuscripts
Early English Furniture & Woodwork. (1922.)
Illustrated throughout. 2 volumes. First edition. Folio, a very good copy in original quarter brown buckram with brown leather labels, brown cloth sides, t.e.g. London, George Routledge and Sons Limited.
Cescinsky writes generously in the preface: "I may confess, at the outset, that without Ernest Gribble this book would either never have been written, or would have been a very different production. His knowledge and experience of English woodwork, especially of the early examples prior to 1530 has been more than an assistance; it has been indispensable. For many years he has employed the whole of his leisure time in visiting churches and houses of the lesser type, in places practically unknown, and quite 'off the map', photographing (often under conditions of incredible difficulty, detailing and examining, with the eye of a skilled craftsman, examples of English woodwork, remarkable alike for their obscure location and their high quality".
Stock Code: MO34599
