A clothbound manuscript book containing well executed pen, i...

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£250 - £350

A clothbound manuscript book containing well executed pen, ink & watercolour illustrations of West country churches, plus accompanying pen & ink calligraphic text with decorative watercolour borders and initial letters, manuscript pen & ink calligraphic title "woodcarving in three west country churches", followed by four page introductory m/s calligraphic text with decorative ink & watercolour borders and initial letters, in red, blue, purple, various greens, pink and yellow, followed by 27 pages of ink and watercolour illustrations and accompanying m/s text with decorative ink & watercolour borders and initials on Holbeton church, Devon, Altarnon church, Cornwall, and St Buryan church, Cornwall, including three full page pen, ink and watercolours of exterior of churches, and one similar double page watercolour of the interior of Altarnon church, all well executed and in the manner of John Piper, plus 16 pages of well executed illustrations of interior carving in the three churches, of which one double page, plus 3 m/s title pages and 3 full pages of m/s calligraphic text with ink & watercolour decorated borders and initial letters, large 4to (32 x 24cm), circa mid 20th Century two tone cloth, ribbon ties