Brasses and Brass Rubbing

By Clare Gittings

Book Overview

Hardcover. 1970 Blandford Press, London edition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713705205
• ISBN13: 9780713705201
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Blandford Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hobbies & History

From the Introduction (loosely): About 8,000 monumental brasses exist in the churches of the British Isles, though these represent a small proportion of the total number laid down between 1250 and 1650. A brass memorial had three main advantages over stone or alabaster figures. Brass was generally cheaper (and smaller grave markings were possible); did not take us as much room as stone; and were not as easily defaced as stone. During the Victorian era, brass rubbing became a common and popular hobby - just as tombstone rubbings are in our own age. This book details the history and methods of successful brass rubbing. Quite interesting and even if you don't want to hunt down a brass memorial to work on, the history alone is fascinating.