MARC Record view

001 $ 06/3059
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20231107102847.9
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Willis, Robert
245 1 4 $a 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.
246 3 # $a Church Of The Holy Sepulchre
246 3 # $a Works published by John W. Parker, West Strand, London. Select List No. II.
260 # # $a London: $b John W. Parker, West Strand. $a Cambridge: $b John Deighton. $c M.DCCC.XLIX. $c [1849]
300 # # $a vi, [2], 167, [1], [4] p., 6 pl. (incl. frontis.): $b [3] illus.; $c 223 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [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.
508 # # $a 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.'
510 0 # $a 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).
520 2 # $a 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.'
561 # # $a 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'.
563 # # $a 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'.
653 # # $a Architecture, Roman - Churches - Basilicas - Martyria - Tombs - Palestine - Israel - Jerusalem - Church of the Resurrection - History - Romanesque
655 # 0 $a Treatises - Art history - Plans - Sections - Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Parker $e publisher
700 1 # $a Deighton $e publisher
700 1 # $a Willis $e draughtsman $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Scoles $e draughtsman $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Lowry $e engraver
700 1 # $a Scoles $e previous owner
710 2 # $a Cambridge University Press $e printer