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Author: Carter, Thomas John Proctor
Title: King's College chapel : notes on its history and present condition.
Publication: London and Cambridge, Macmillan and Co 1867.
Price: £100
Reference: 11339
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8vo. (6) + 89 + (1)pp, actual mounted photo frontispiece, folding litho plan. Publisher's cloth, bumped at outer corners, spine chipped at head and foot, and with additional slight loss of surface elsewhere. Ink ownership inscription of Benjamin Webb (1819-1885 : Church of England clergyman and editor of the Ecclesiologist), with separate ink presentation inscription from the author. No subsequent ownership inscription but Howard Colvin's copy.
An unfamiliar monograph on King's College Chapel, Cambridge, written by one of the college's Fellows but unusual for its date in its sensibility to the aesthetic qualities of the chapel's architecture, and incorporating a chapter at the end in which author discusses the ethics of the restoration of historic buildings of this nature (with particular reference to the case for designing a new reredos for the chapel in an appropriately matching style). It comes as no great surprise that the author acknowledges in his preface "many hints and observations" from his friend G.G.Scott junior, and that he prints as an appendix a report of 1866 by George Gilbert Scott senior advocating the installation of a new altar and reredos.