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Author: Brindley, William & Weatherley, W.Samuel
Title: Antient sepulchral monuments containing illustrations of over six hundred examples from various countries and from the earliest periods down to the end of the eighteenth century. With descriptive and general index.
Publication: London, printed for the authors by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1887.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10108
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Large folio. (48)pp, 212 litho plates, one leaf with list of subscribers at end. Original cloth, slightly worn and marked, but a good clean copy internally. Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplate.
This very substantial volume by Brindley and Weatherley was produced “to aid those who, rebelling at the ordinary modern monument, desired a worthier and more satisfactory memorial”. For inspiration the authors looked primarily to Early Christian, Renaissance and seventeenth-century source material, and here they were in tune with some of the younger architects of the day, acknowledging help from Lethaby and from the brothers George Gilbert Scott junior and John Oldrid Scott. The real context of the book is thus not other literature on nineteenth century funeral monuments but the early stirrings of the Arts and Crafts movement. Of the volume’s two authors, Brindley was a partner in Farmer and Brindley, the Lambeth firm of stonemasons who worked closely with leading late nineteenth century English architects, while Weatherley (FRIBA 1886), who did the very delicate drawings on which the plates are based, was a London architect of scholarly tastes who had been a pupil and assistant of Sir George Gilbert Scott.