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001 $ 12/3834
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220712101321.3
035 # # $z 5025
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Neale, James
245 1 0 $a The Abbey Church of Saint Alban, Hertfordshire / $c Illustrated [with descriptive letterpress] by James Neale
260 # # $a London $c 1877
300 # # $a xii, 36p, 60 leaves of plates : $b illus., plans ; $c 570 mm.
500 # # $a James Neale, as an architectural student (from 1873 at the Royal Academy), began making measured drawings of the abbey church of St Alban early in the 1870s and was awarded in 1875 the Pugin Travelling Studentship and the Silver Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The drawings were so successful that he was encouraged to have them printed by subscription. As a result, at the head of the Preface is the statement, "Printed for subscribers, and not published".

The title-page, which is called the Frontispiece in the text, is noted as Plate 1 in the list of plates. It is a copy of decoration on the Choir ceiling and is reproducted from Neale's drawing by chromolithography. In the Notes on page 36 Neale describes the selection of photolithography for the production of the plates and its advantages for this work. At the foot of the same page is the printer statement: C. F. Kell, Castle Street, Holborn, E.C.
563 # # $a The work has a cover title printed in gold, 'Neale's Abbey Church of S. Alban'. The brown leather spine is lettered in gold, 'James Neale. Abbey Church Of St. Alban. London, 1877.' and 'R.A.'
653 # # $a St. Albans Cathedral - Cathedrals England
700 1 # $a Neale, James $e source artist
700 1 # $a Grimston, James Walter $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Kell, C. F. $e lithographic printer