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Author: Deshayes, C.-A.
Title: Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Jumiéges.
Publication: Rouen, F. Baudry 1829.
Price: Sold
Reference: 04809
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8vo. (4) + vi + 288 + (4)pp, 5 engr plates (1 folding). Later nineteenth century quarter morocco, marbled boards, the original printed wrappers bound in.
The first proper scholarly book on the abbey of Jumiéges. The first part of the book is historical and the second part (starting at p.167) provides a description of the surviving remains of the splendid Romanesque abbey church and of other historic buildings in the vicinity. The author, a well-informed local antiquary, rightly deplores the removal from the site in 1820-1 of some of the best of the surviving sculptural stonework, taken away by “les Anglais” (this was at about the same time that the carved stonework of the “Grande Maison” at Les Andelys was being transported from Normandy to England, ending up as part of Lord Stuart de Rothesay’s seaside house at Highcliffe, Hampshire). BAL Cat 863.