{"product_id":"betjeman-john-ed-collins-guide-to-english-parish-churches-1800212","title":"[BETJEMAN, John, ed.] Collins Guide to English Parish Churches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8vo., publisher’s original glazed black cloth, titles stamped in gilt to spine; upper edge stained red; pictorial dustwrapper designed in colour by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (unclipped, 30s. net to front flap); pp. [viii], 9-480; with 64 monochrome plates, and including an Index and Glossary; a near fine copy, lightly bumped and discoloured to foot of spine; ever-so-slight toning mostly affecting the endpapers; some minor dark marking to the lower edge of the text block; the wrapper with small chip to foot of spine on wrapper, sometime repaired internally with tape; a little spotting to the lower panel; some light nicks and chips to ends of folds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. This a \u003cb\u003ePresentation copy, contemporaneously inscribed by the author to the title page \u003c\/b\u003e- with his charmingly puckish wit - : “Iain MacBetjeman \/ in \/ the achins of the North \/ Caledonia \/ 1959”. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interesting work on the churches of England, which benefits greatly from Betjeman’s knowledgeable editorship and introduction. This influential publication presents the first remarkably thorough and accessible guide to a comprehensive selection of over 4000 glorious and distinctive buildings across the UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn particular, this work is notable for drawing attention to what was at the time an under-appreciated facet of our architectural heritage, and at a phase of increasingly diminishing national faith and regular Sunday church attendance which prevails to this day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Three ghosts inhabit all English churches. They are those of John Betjeman, Alec Clifton-Taylor and Nicklaus Pevsner.”\u003c\/i\u003e - Simon Jenkins in ‘England’s Thousand Best Churches’  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e1800212\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57198209335620,"sku":"1800212","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/1800212.jpg?v=1788626421","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/betjeman-john-ed-collins-guide-to-english-parish-churches-1800212","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}