ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES, OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

First edition: 3 volumes, 144 + 140 + 160 pages, additional engraved title, 178 steel engraved plates with tissue guards, contemporary half brown calf titled and decorated gilt on the spines, brown cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some very light foxing on the plates, a very good set.

‘Henry Winkles (1801–1860) was an English architectural illustrator, engraver and printer, who, together with Karl Ludwig Frommel founded the first studio for steel engraving in Germany. In 1836, with Benjamin Winkles, he produced and helped to engrave three volumes of "Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales". This featured illustrators such as Hablot Knight Browne (the "Phiz" of Charles Dickens fame) and architect Robert Garland (1808–1863), with text (and some engraving) by Thomas Moule. These books helped to inspire the 19th century Gothic revival in architecture in Britain.’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Winkles)