John Weeuer (1 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. 871 pages, engraved title page, 18 woodcut illustrations, some whole page. The beautifully engraved title page is mounted on old paper, old bookplate and old name and date 1854 on front endpaper. Leather on the spine is split a few cm at top and bottom, binding is firm, loss of bottom corner of pages 509-512, misprinting at the top of p. 608. John Weever (1576-1632) was an English antiquary and poet. His Ancient Funerall Monuments, the first full-length book to be dedicated to the topic of English church monuments and epitaphs was published in 1631. The work included a lengthy introductory global overview of his subject, the "Discourse of Funerall Monuments"; and this was followed by a survey of over a thousand inscriptions in the four south-eastern dioceses of England: Canterbury, Rochester, London and Norwich. The book is particularly valuable on account of the subsequent loss of many of these inscriptions.