Elizabethan Sheldon tapestries - extract from Archaeologia vol lxxiv by Humphreys, John - 1925

Oxford: Printed by Frederick Hall for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1925 Book. Good. Soft cover. pages [181-202 + 8 pages of illustrations. In card covers and tape spine. Some marks and browning to the covers. Previous owner's ink initials to the front free end paper..

OUP. 1929 1st edition.. Size 9.25 x 11.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded and rubbed with small chips at top end. Slightly rubbed along edges with small marks, stains and tears. Not price clipped). Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1930. Else a clean and tight copy. 27pp. With b/w plates. William Sheldon introduced tapestry making to England in the mid 16th century. The industry he established in Warwickshire produced a series of magnificent tapestries. The object of this book is to identify the surviving examples in private and public collections in England.

OUP. 1929 1st edition.. Size 9.25 x 11.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine darkened and rubbed with small holes and tears. Rubbed along edges with small marks, stains and tears. Not price clipped). Relevant letter to front. Else a clean and tight copy. 27pp. With b/w plates. William Sheldon introduced tapestry making to England in the mid 16th century. The industry he established in Warwickshire produced a series of magnificent tapestries. The object of this book is to identify the surviving examples in private and public collections in England.

London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1929. Hardcover. VG- (Boards have edgewear and toning; textblock edges are foxed; interior is clean and binding is solid.). Red boards with gilt lettering; 27, [1] pp., XIII plates on 9 leaves, frontispiece, portrait, 2 folded genealogical tables. This book is a celebration of tapestries produced at Britain's Sheldon Tapestries.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929 Book. Good. Hardcover. 27, [1] pages + 13 pages of plates and 2 folding genealogical tables. In the original red buckram binding. Some spotting to pages. Loosely inserted are a cutting from the Redditch Indicator from 1922 about the restoration of the Sheldon Chapel, a reprint from the Birmingham Post of 1939 about a Hyckes Memorial to be placed in Barcheston Church and a flier showing the first list of donations towards the memorial. Ink owner's name to the front free end paper - HT Milward.