AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL AND METROPOLICAL CHURCH OF ST. PETER, YORK, FROM ITS FIRST FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT YEAR. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER PLATES, CONSISTING OF DIFFERENT VIEWS, PLANS, &C. AND TRANSLATIONS OF ALL THE LATIN EPITAPHS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, CATALOGUES OF THE ARCHBISHOPS, DEANS, SUR-DEANS, CHANCELLORS, TREASURERS, PRECENTORS, AND SUCCENTORS.
York, England: A. Ward, and sold by W. Tesseyman, J. Todd, H. Sotheran, T. Wilson, N. Frobisher, and R. Spence, Booksellers in York. 1783. Second Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. 12mo. Contemporary calf boards, xii + p. 136. Board surfaces scuffed, nicked and altogether abraded in places, with wear, peeling and stray-poking stitching particularly, at bottom of spine.All leather edges gilt-detailed. 11 (of 14 copperplates present, 1 detached but present). Printer's Device of Crossed Keys to title page. (Note: The author is not the famous explorer by the same name). Solildly bound copy in original binding, with fascinating copper plates depicting intricate architectural and artistic details.
Cathedrals were once designed consciously, with deep knowledge of how shape of wall, play of light and shadow, affected the inner lives of worshipers and aspirants, remarkably inspiring within the "wish to Be",
to rise up, to commune with God. The copperplates within this eighteenth-century study, magnificently reveal this purposed, now perhaps lost forever, understanding of sacred geometry, as manifested in architecture. Good. Item #86532
Includes a "List of persons buried in this Cathedral", including Marmaduke Constaable, Hugh de Lubbersthorpe,Dame Elizabeth Beckwith, , Ethelrida, Daughter of Edwin the Great, Eadbert, King of Northumberland, John Negropontens, Gilbert Pynchbeck, Lady Mary Younge, Richrd Whittington (but not his cat), and Sweryne, a Danish King.
"...With the Office of Treasurer naturally fell that of Sub-Treasrer, whose duty it was to provide Sacrists and other
Officers to do the servile Offcesof the Church, as cleaning it, opening the Doors, ringing the Bells, blowing the Organ, &c. for which the Treasurer usually paid him a Salary of 50 Marks - Bot these Offices became extinct in this Church very early, and the Reason given for dissolving them was undoubtedly a sufficient one. (abrepto omni Thesauro, desiit Thesaurorii munus: Being plundered of all its Treasure, it had no further Need of a Treasurer..." (p. 134).
Price: $250.00