St. Mary-le-Strand: [a broadsheet poem]

Sir John BETJEMAN

Verlag: London: [published by the author (or St Mary le Strand?)], 1977

Beschreibung

Single sheet, 296 x 207mm. 20-line poem ("Shall we give Gibbs the go by . . .") issued over the Poet Laureate's wobbly facsimile signature, in aid of the restoration of St Mary le Strand, built in 1714-24 to the designs of James Gibbs. Betjeman launched the church's appeal on 14 September 1977; four years later the Greater London Council was threatening to declare Gibbs's marvellous tower a dangerous structure. "Whenever you put stone on stone / You edified the scene, / Your chaste baroque was on its own, / Great Gibbs of Aberdeen. / A Tory and a Catholic / There's nothing quite so grand / As the baroque of your Chapel of St. Mary in the Strand.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30M100056

Bibliografische Details

Titel: St. Mary-le-Strand: [a broadsheet poem]

Verlag: London: [published by the author (or St Mary le Strand?)]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1977

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition