Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

French cathedrals. Monasteries and abbeys and sacred sites of France. Illustrated with one hundred and eighty-three pictures by Joseph Pennell also with plans and diagrams.

London & Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin 1909.

Reference: 08084
Price: £45 [convert currency]

Full Description

Large 8vo. xxxi+(1)+424pp, (39) plates incl. frontis. Publisher’s cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, inner hinge beginning to crack, tear to one text leaf, repaired. Roderick Gradidge’s copy (booklabel).

A joint husband-and-wife effort, with lively text from the writer and art critic Elizabeth Pennell (1855-1936), illustrated throughout by the drawings of the etcher and book illustrator Joseph Pennell.