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.
$1,850.00
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