Angels and Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870

Angels and Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870

William Waters; Alistair Carew-Cox

Seraphim Press, 2012

368 pages / illustrations (black and white, and colour) / 28 cm

The first of a trilogy of books exploring Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass in the British Isles, Angels and Icons British Isles. It explores the period 1850-70 and concentrates on n a group of artists who were designing windows well before the foundation of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

In particular it examines the work of major stained glass makers of the Victorian era: Clayton & Bell, Heaton Butler & Bayne and Lavers & Barraud, Morris & Co. and James Powell & Son at Whitefriars. 

William Waters’s text is complimented by Alastair Carew-Cox’s sympathetic plate camera photography. Angels & Icons includes an informative gazetteer to help readers to locate and discover these beautiful windows for themselves.

ISBN: 978-0-953280131