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Walsinghamby H. M. Gillett. Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1946. Hardback, 102 pp. Complete with original dust jacket. Free-standing attractively published map between back endpapers. Oddly moving list of the names of all the thirty-eight members of a 1948 pilgrimage inscribed on front endpapers, one from Nova Scotia , one from Poland, and the rest from a range of British colleges and universities. No fewer than seven learned Appendices. Some attractive black and white photographic illustrations. The frontispiece reproduces (though still in black and white) a gorgeous Cotman watercolour. Bibliography and Index at the end. Some slight foxing to cover and edges. Condition: Fair £19.99 This charming but thorough little history of the famous British Marian shrine covers all the right bases. (Its author would later go on to write a definitive two-volumeFamous Shrines of Our Lady.) The second chapter,The Glory of Walsinghamis clearly where the authors heart lies. It covers the y

19.99 GBP