ENGLISH SHRINES AND SANCTUARIES. Illustrated by Eric King.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1954]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original blue boards, black lettering and rules on spine. 182 pp, Index. Black & white frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text, many full page, plus pictorial dust jacket, all by Eric King. Light darkening of endleaves; tiny smidgen of fading to boards along the bottom edge, a near fine, sharp copy in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Item #314556
¶ Holy Places and Sanctuaries, Holy Wells, Shrines of the Royal Martyrs, Unofficial Saints. Christina Hole writes of them, and in two concluding chapters she tells of the destruction of the shrines during the Reformation, and of their survival and revival in recent years.
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