SCREENS AND GALLERIES IN ENGLISH CHURCHES
BY FRANCIS BOND, M.A., F.G.S.
A handsome volume, containing 204 pp., with 152 Illustrations, reproduced from Photographs and Measured Drawings. Octavo, strongly bound in cloth. Price 6s. net
LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press
SOME PRESS NOTICES
Builder.—“When we look at the detailed photographs we realise the richness of the field which Mr Bond has traversed, and congratulate him on the choice of his subject. His method is one of singular thoroughness from the ecclesiological standpoint.”
Journal of the Architectural Association.—“As a record of the screens remaining in our churches it cannot be valued too highly. No book till now has brought such a number together, or traced their development in so full and interesting a manner.... A most delightful book.”
Builders’ Journal.—“The author may be congratulated on the production of a book which, in text as well as in illustrations, is of striking and inexhaustible interest; it is the kind of book to which one returns again and again, in the assurance of renewed and increased pleasure at each reperusal.”
Tablet.—“The numerous excellent illustrations are of the greatest interest, and form a veritable surprise as to the beauty and variety of the treatment which our forefathers lavished upon the rood screen.”
British Weekly.—“The book abounds with admirable illustrations of these beautiful works of art, so perfect even in the minute details that any one interested in the art of woodcarving could reproduce the designs with ease from the excellent photographs which occur on almost every page. There is also a series of ‘measured drawings’ of great beauty and interest.”
New York Nation.—“It is not easy to praise too highly the simple and effective presentation of the subject and the interest of the book to all persons who care for ecclesiology or for decorative art.”
Bibliophile.—“This excellent book is a sign of the times; of the reawakened interest in the beautiful and historic.... A model of scholarly compression. Of the finely produced illustrations it is difficult to speak in too high terms of praise.”
Daily Graphic.—“Mr Bond has produced a work on our ecclesiastical screens and galleries which, like his larger work on the ‘Gothic Architecture of England,’ is in the first degree masterly. His knowledge of his subject, exact and comprehensive, is compressed into a minimum amount of space, and illustrated by a series of photographs and measured drawings which render the work of permanent value.”
Bulletin Monumental.—“Après avoir analysé, aussi exactement que possible, l’intéressant étude de M. Bond, nous devons le féliciter de nous avoir donné ce complément si utile à son grand ouvrage.”