[Rarebooks] fs: Wonderful Gravestone Manuscript Pattern Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Bridgman, C.F. Manuscript Catalog- "Monumenta C.F. Bridgman (late C. 
Parsons) Statuarie and Monumental Mason -Lewes".

Lewes; nd (ca.1890-1900).

A beautiful and interesting manuscript pattern book of gravestones and 
gravestone carving designs, offered by C.F. Bridgman. The designs are 
executed in pen and muted watercolors in earth tones, and include an 
elaborate title page followed by six pages of meticulously drawn gravestone 
designs, about 15 per page (80 in all); these pages are followed by five 
pages of emblems and decorative initials which were presumably carved in 
the stones, two per page, followed by two pages which have single large 
emblems (one intertwined initials, the other a wheat sheaf with sickles). A 
beautiful manuscript pattern book.

15.5"x11", blank endpaper plus a manuscript title page, plus 13 manuscript 
pages of pen and watercolor drawings; the last blank endpaper has three 
real photos of gravestones inset in corner mounting cuts; bound in old 
boards with the monogram "C.F. Bridgman" on the cover; boards worn, cloth 
spine worn, hinges a bit loose; there is some soil throughout and some 
spotting on the prelimns. and the rear endpaper. [22181] $1,850.00

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