8vo. [2], viii, 127, [1], 4pp. With a lithographed frontispiece, lithographed title page, and three further lithographed plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Ticket of booksellers Grant & Griffith of London, armorial bookplate of Harcourt Skrine, and recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, plates spotted.

The first edition of a work on the Temple Church by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1812-1866), barrister and historical writer. Addison had previously written a History of the Knights Templar, the first two editions of which appeared in 1842 and a third in 1852.

From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.