A detailed study of the Arts in the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. The book is organised in chapters that cover all the forms of art and craft of the period (furniture, tapestry, ceramics, arms, armour, carriages, saddlery, gold an silver work, horology, musical instruments, playing-cards, glass-paintings, frescos, paintings on wood or canvas, engravings, sculpture, architecture, parchment and paper, manuscripts, miniatures, bookbinding and printing). There are numerous illustrations associated with the text, nineteen of them chromolithographic prints and 400 engravings on wood.
Lacroix, Paul (1806-1888), author and journalist
The third of a series of five volumes about the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English Edifices; accompanied by Historical and Descriptive accounts of each. Buildings included: Lullington Church, Somersetshire; Castle Acre Priory Church, Norfolk; Collegiate Church, Manchester; Waltham Abbey Church, Essex; Hedingham Castle, Essex; St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Roslyn Chapel, Scotland; St. Nicholas Chapel, Lynn, Norfolk; Red Mount Chapel, Lynn; College Gate-House, Bristol; Priory Church, Christ Church, Hampshire; St. James's Tower, Bury, Suffolk; Abbey Gate-House, Bury; Porch of St. Mary's Church, Bury; Norwich Cloister; School's Tower, Oxford; Round Church, Cambridge; King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Britton, John (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer
