Church Vestments - Their Origin & Development. by ECCLESIASTICAL COSTUME. NORRIS, Herbert - 1949

Dent, London., 1949. First edition. Small quarto. pp xviii, 190. Numerous illustrations, including eight colour plates. Pictorial purple cloth gilt and red. Publisher's file copy with publication inscription on front free endpaper and ''file'' stamp in top margin of first few pages. Covers the period from early Christianity to the end of the fifteenth century.Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly nicked and creased dustwrapper with ''file'' stamp in top corner of front panel.