The Colonial Houses of Worship in America: Built in the English Colonies Before the Republic, 1607-1789, and Still Standing
by Rose, Harold Wickliffe
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1963 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xiv (i), 574 pp, acknowledgments, introduction, 1. The Colonial Houses of Wroship; 2. The Church of England and the South; 3. The Colonial Catholics; 4. The Dissenters and New England; 5. Colonial Jews; 6. The Protestants and the Mid-Atlantic; 7. Brick; 8. Wood; 9. Stone; 10. Their Names; appendices I-V; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1963. "Here, brought together for the first time, are all the surviving colonial houses of worship -- nearly 400 b&w photographs taken by the author during more than 30 years of research, depicting 345 buildings whose locations are pinpointed on 15 maps.These buildings, scattered across America, represent every style of church architecture used in the colonial period -- from English medieval Gothic to classical Georgian, and from the log church of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the frame meeting house of New England." from the jacket flap. In Very Good + Slipcase. Price clipped. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine..
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004878
- Title
- The Colonial Houses of Worship in America: Built in the English Colonies Before the Republic, 1607-1789, and Still Standing
- Author
- Rose, Harold Wickliffe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hastings House Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE U.S. HISTORY CHURCHES COLONIAL PERIOD PHOTOGRAPHIC
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- ARCHITECTURE;
- Size
- 4to
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