Handbook to the cathedrals of England
Richard John King's 1861 Handbook to the cathedrals of England, published in London by John Murray, is a guide for travelers and readers interested in English church architecture. The four plates show Chester and Durham cathedral interiors and exteriors, including a chapter house with vaulted ceilings, a Gothic facade with pinnacles and tracery windows, and a stone pulpit in the refectory, all drawn in fine black line. A designer could take from them the clean linework, the rib-vaulted geometry and the pointed-arch rhythms of Gothic structure.
