An Account of Medieval Figure- Sculpture in 

 England. By Edward S. Prior, M.A., F.S.A., 

 Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of 

 Cambridge, and Arthur Gardner, M.A., F.S.A. 



Uemy 4to. pp. xii + 734. With 855 photographs. Price ^3. y. od. net. 



EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES 



Athenaeum. — Prof. Prior and Mr Gardner have given us a work on medieval 

 figure-sculpture which will surely mark an epoch in the history of English 

 art. On the lowest ground it is an enchanting picture-book, with its 

 855 photographs — many of them of masterpieces of sculpture — illus- 

 trating the often unnoticed wealth of Gothic art in this country 



This is the work of men with a thorough knowledge and love of their 



subject It is incumbent on every lover of English Gothic art to 



familiarize' himself with it. 



Studio. — The joint authors of a book that, even without its deeply interesting 

 text, must be a delight to all lovers of the noble art of decorative figure- 

 sculpture, on account of the vast number and the beauty of its illus- 

 trations, go to the very root of the matter under discussion. Not only 

 do they describe and classify all the most characteristic examples of this 



delightful craft that still survive in England they realise the very 



spirit that animated those who executed them. 



Times. — Taken as a whole the book deserves that prodigally misused epithet 



of epoch-making If it were nothing more, and it is a great deal more, 



" Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England " would be an unrivalled picture- 

 book. Merely turning over the pages at ha<?ard, the reader lights on 



fresh and delightful things Neither amateur nor student could wish 



for better guidance than that which Professor Prior and Mr Gardner have 

 provided. 



British Architect. — The student of Gothic architecture may now pass before 

 him a comprehensive review, a splendid panorama of examples of the 

 best periods of medieval sculpture in this country by means of the fine 



volume on "Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England." Our medieval 



figure-sculpture may now, for the first tim.e, be appreciated at something 

 of its real value. 



Architect. — A sense of the amplitude of medieval art is the dominant impres- 

 sion that we gather from a first perusal of the masterly work on Enghsh 

 figure-sculpture in the middle ages with which Mr Prior and Mr Gardner 



have endowed us The authors have produced a splendidly complete 



conspectus of medieval figure-sculpture in England in all its branches. 



Guardian. — It would be difficult to overpraise this work Not a point 



that we can detect is passed over. Every stage of English medieval 

 sculpture is noticed, discussed, classified, explained. A wealth of illus- 

 trations is provided, carefully arranged so as to adjoin and elucidate the 

 text to which they relate. 



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