KNOOP, Douglas / JONES, G. P.: The Mediaeval Mason - An Economic History of English Stone Building in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by the late Douglas Knoop M.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A. and G. P. Jones, Litt.D. , Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1933 .

A very good first edition. pp.12/pp.294/[2pp. - Adverts] . Clean maroon boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Armorial Bookplate to verso of the front board: Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe . Clean text throughout, just a few brown spots. VG. Excerpt from later reprint : "...This book is perhaps the first real attempt to describe the stone-building industry as it existed in England during the later Middle Ages..." ** Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe who was a notable local historian and a leading authority on folk life. Bagshawe was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, in 1901 and became a director of the family engineering firm. Bagshawe began a small private museum in Dunstable in 1925 and became the honorary curator of Luton Museum when it first opened in 1927. He later became the Museum's director. (Book ref. 37763)  £28.00

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