SCREENS AND GALLERIES IN ENGLISH CHURCHES
BY FRANCIS BOND, M.A., F.G.S.
A handsome volume, containing 204 pp., with 152 Illustrations, reproduced from Photographs and Measured Drawings. Octavo, strongly bound in cloth. Price 6s. net
LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press
SOME PRESS NOTICES
Builder.—“When we look at the detailed photographs we realise the richness of the field which Mr Bond has traversed, and congratulate him on the choice of his subject. His method is one of singular thoroughness from the ecclesiological standpoint.”
Journal of the Architectural Association.—“As a record of the screens remaining in our churches it cannot be valued too highly. No book till now has brought such a number together, or traced their development in so full and interesting a manner.... A most delightful book.”
Builders’ Journal.—“The author may be congratulated on the production of a book which, in text as well as in illustrations, is of striking and inexhaustible interest; it is the kind of book to which one returns again and again, in the assurance of renewed and increased pleasure at each reperusal.”
Tablet.—“The numerous excellent illustrations are of the greatest interest, and form a veritable surprise as to the beauty and variety of the treatment which our forefathers lavished upon the rood screen.”
British Weekly.—“The book abounds with admirable illustrations of these beautiful works of art, so perfect even in the minute details that any one interested in the art of woodcarving could reproduce the designs with ease from the excellent photographs which occur on almost every page. There is also a series of ‘measured drawings’ of great beauty and interest.”
New York Nation.—“It is not easy to praise too highly the simple and effective presentation of the subject and the interest of the book to all persons who care for ecclesiology or for decorative art.”
Bibliophile.—“This excellent book is a sign of the times; of the reawakened interest in the beautiful and historic.... A model of scholarly compression. Of the finely produced illustrations it is difficult to speak in too high terms of praise.”
Daily Graphic.—“Mr Bond has produced a work on our ecclesiastical screens and galleries which, like his larger work on the ‘Gothic Architecture of England,’ is in the first degree masterly. His knowledge of his subject, exact and comprehensive, is compressed into a minimum amount of space, and illustrated by a series of photographs and measured drawings which render the work of permanent value.”
Bulletin Monumental.—“Après avoir analysé, aussi exactement que possible, l’intéressant étude de M. Bond, nous devons le féliciter de nous avoir donné ce complément si utile à son grand ouvrage.”
FONTS & FONT COVERS
BY FRANCIS BOND. M.A., F.G.S.
A handsome volume containing 364 pages, with 426 Illustrations reproduced from Photographs and Measured Drawings. Octavo, strongly bound in cloth. Price 12s. net
LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press
SOME PRESS NOTICES
Guardian.—“Mr Bond is so well known by his monumental work on ‘Gothic Architecture in England,’ and by his beautiful book on ‘Screens and Galleries,’ that his name alone is a sufficient guarantee for this new volume on ‘Fonts and Font Covers,’ the most complete and thorough that has yet appeared.”
Church Times.—“The finest collection of illustrations of fonts and font covers yet attempted.... A real delight to the ecclesiologist.”
Commonwealth.—“A sumptuous monograph on a very interesting subject; complete and thorough.”
Church Quarterly Review.—“It is most delightful, not only to indulge in a serious perusal of this volume, but to turn over its pages again and again, always sure to find within half a minute some beautiful illustration or some illuminating remark.”
Irish Builder.—“This book on ‘Fonts and Font Covers’ is a most valuable contribution to mediæval study, put together in masterly fashion, with deep knowledge and love of the subject.”
Westminster Gazette.—“Every one interested in church architecture and sculpture will feel almost as much surprise as delight in Mr Bond’s attractive volume on ‘Fonts and Font Covers.’ The wealth of illustrations and variety of interest are truly astonishing.”
Journal of the Society of Architects.—“The book is a monument of painstaking labour and monumental research; its classification is most admirable. The whole subject is treated in a masterly way with perfect sequence and a thorough appreciation of the many sources of development; the illustrations, too, are thoroughly representative. To many the book will come as a revelation. We all recognise that the fonts are essential, and in many cases beautiful and interesting features in our ancient churches, but few can have anticipated the extraordinary wealth of detail which they exhibit when the photographs of all the best of them are collected together in a single volume.”
Outlook.—“Mr Francis Bond’s book carefully included in one’s luggage enables one, with no specialist’s knowledge postulated, to pursue to a most profitable end one of the most interesting, almost, we could say, romantic, branches of ecclesiastical architecture.... This book, owing to its scholarship and thoroughness in letterpress and illustrations, will doubtless be classic; in all its methods it strikes us as admirable. The bibliography and the indexes are beyond praise.”