This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the world. It is not only the widest stone span in the world, but the widest that is ever likely to be made, as now iron is so much more serviceable in bridging great openings. Staines is not an interesting town, and the church is a modern brick building, though the tower is said to be by Inigo Jones. Near the church ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the world. It is not only the widest stone span in the world, but the widest that is ever likely to be made, as now iron is so much more serviceable in bridging great openings. Staines is not an interesting town, and the church is a modern brick building, though the tower is said to be by Inigo Jones. Near the church is a venerable mansion of the early Elizabethan style, though popular tradition dates it back to a much earlier period. The three-arched bridge that connects Staines with Egham was built in 1832, and this latter is also a town of little interest. It is twenty-one miles from the Waterloo Bridge Station on the South-Western Railway, and some of the trains run the distance very quickly. The church also, like Staines, is without architectural interest, but there is a curious brass under the south gallery, with four kneeling figures, and the inscription, "Antonye Bond, gent., once cittezen and writer of the Court Letter of London, 1576. "Christ is to me as lyef on earthe, and death to me is gayne, Because I wish through Him, saluation to obtayne. So bryttle is the state of man, so soon it doth decaye, So all the glory of this worlde must pas and vade away." There is also a tablet to Rev. T. Beighton, who died at an advanced age, and is honoured with having an epitaph by Garrick, which Dr. Johnson has called the finest in the English language. There is also a painted bust of Thomas Foster, a Justice in the Stuart period of English history; and there is near this a curious one to Richard Kellefet, who seems to have stood high in favour with Elizabeth, and is described as a "most faithful servant to hir majestie, chief groome in her removing Garderobe of beddes, and yeoman also of her standing garderobe of Richmount." There are...
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52 b/w Illustrations. Good. No Jacket as Issued. 12 vo. First British Edition; 290 clean, unmarked pages; 3/4 red leather w/marbled boards, end papers; front hinge is partially detached, lite wear at tips; lite marginal chipping of flyleaf.
