Title: The ruined abbeys of Britain
Description: A lovely two volume title combining textural descriptions of twelve of Britain's most beautiful and haunting monastic ruins with exquisite colour plates by A.F. Lytton.  A wonderful, decorative Victorian binding makes this a most attractive, as well as a most interesting work.
Subjects: Abbeys, Benedictine, Cistercian, English monasteries, Ruined buildings, monastic ruins, pre-dissolution England, Lost architecture, Church architecture, Medieval Architecture, Monasticism and religious orders, History
Places: Fountains, Great Britain, Melrose, Rievaulx, Tintern
Time periods: 11th c.-16th c., Pre-dissolution England