The Architectural History Of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre At Jerusalem. By The Rev. Robert Willis, M.A., F.R.S. Jacksonian Professor Of The University Of Cambridge.
Church Of The Holy Sepulchre
Works published by John W. Parker, West Strand, London. Select List No. II.
Imprint
London:: John W. Parker, West Strand., Cambridge:: John Deighton., M.DCCC.XLIX.
Physical Description
vi, [2], 167, [1], [4] p., 6 pl. (incl. frontis.): [3] illus.; 223 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[Half-t., frontis. (= pl. 3), t.p.] - Table Of Contents - List Of Engravings - Addenda Et Corrigenda - [Text, with pl. 4-6]; Description Of The Plates, With Additional Remarks - [Colophon] - [Plates 1, 2] - Works Published by John W. Parker, West Strand, London. Select List No. II.
Responsibility Note
Plate 1 is unsigned by a draughtsman; pl. 2 is signed as drawn by R.Willis from sketches by J.J. Scoles; pl. 3 as drawn by R. Willis; pl. 4-6 as drawn by J.J. Scoles. All are signed as engraved by J.W. Lowry.
Plates 2, 3, 6 carry the publisher's imprint of John W. Parker, 445, West Strand (London 1849).
The title-page vignette is signed as drawn by [illegible] and engraved by W.C. Mason [?]
The printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'Cambridge: Printed at the University Press.'
References
On Willis see R. Pevsner, Some architectural writers of the nineteenth century (1972), p.52-61.
More recent studies of the history of the church include: J. Krüger, Die Grabeskirche zu Jerusalem: Geschichte, Gestalt, Bedeutung (2000); N. Schur, Jerusalem in pilgrims' and travellers' accounts: a thematic bibliography (1980).
Summary Note
Plate 4 carries the publication-date of 'Novr. 1825'. The half-title reads, 'Church Of The Holy Sepulchre'.
The Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem was commissioned in the fourth century by Emperor Constantine I, restored in the sixth by Justinian I and modified subsequently. The round church in Jerusalem became a model for round churches elsewhere in Christendom.
The plates are captioned and show: 1, 2 (fold.). 'Plans Of The Church ...'; 3. (frontis.) 'Longitudinal Section Of The Church ...'; 4. 'Tombs Of The Judges'; 5, 6. 'Tomb Of Absalom'. The title-page vignette shows 'The Holy Sepulchre in its present state'.
At the foot of the 'List Of Engravings' is the note, 'N.B. - The present Work is inserted entire in the Second Edition of the Holy City, of which it forms Chapter III., Vol. II., and which is published simultaneously with it.'
Provenance
The front pastedown is stamped, 'A.J.C. Scoles. Archt. London.' A preliminary leaf is inscribed in pencil, 'J.J. Scoles. Given me by Professor Willis July 5 - 1850'.
Binding Note
19th-century green cloth, upper and lower covers decorated with a cross, centre, in gilt and border in blind; spine lettered, 'Willis's Holy Sepulchre' and 'London John W. Parker'.
Subject
Architecture, Roman - Churches - Basilicas - Martyria - Tombs - Palestine - Israel - Jerusalem - Church of the Resurrection - History - Romanesque
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