Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, John Sell Cotman and J. M. W. Turner. Gothic architecture explained from the ground up - the arch, the vault, the window tracery, period by period, with the terms defined. Parker's handbooks taught the Victorians how to look at their own churches. This edition is bound with 60 plates of paintings, among them works by Cotman, Turner and Czölder, ranging from Crambe Beck Bridge to Port Ruysdael.