A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese, distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries, to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see ... : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts ... : in three volumes
Browne Willis's three-volume survey of the English and Welsh cathedrals, printed in London for Thomas Osborne in 1742 for antiquaries, clergy and subscribers to county history. The pictures here are letterpress tailpiece ornaments cut in wood: symmetrical urns and pedestals wrapped in acanthus scrolls, hung with flower swags, topped by eagles or doves, some with a woman's face set in the cartouche.
