History of Early Christian Arts (Side-Lights of Church History series)

xvi, 368pp, 8pp publisher's ads. Black and white tissue guarded frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations. Brown cloth-covered bevelled edge boards; gilt titles on spine, black endpapers. 8vo. Lightly sun-faded spine, spine ends rubbed and bumped, corners rubbed and rounded, cloth wearing; light shelf wear to boards. Volume quite loose. Text block edge tanned with light foxing. Prelims lightly foxed. Internally, small number of pencil notes to page margins and occasional spotting/tanning, otherwise a neat, clean, bright and tight volume. The object of this book is to make more widely known the results which the study of the remains of Early Christian Art has attained in throwing light upon the early history of the Church.