Title: Old England: A Pictorial Museum
City: London
Date: 1845
Total items: 239
Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, municipal and Popular Antiquities, Charles Knight (1791 – 1873) London, Charles Knight and Co., Ludgate Street, First Edition, 1845, two volumes, folio, pp. viii, 392; vi, 386, 24 chromoxylographs (incl. frontis.). Many wood-engraved text illustrations.
My copy has contemporary (worn) half-calf with gilt backs; there is some light foxing and dampstaining to the plates and margins of some leaves. Ref. Abbey, Life, 43; purchased D. & E Lake Toronto, 1992.
This book has been reprinted, but the reprint is out of print; you can search for a used copy on Amazon.
Some more of the images are online in much lower resolution scans at New York Public Library, as reprinted in a later book.
I have typed in the index to the book so that you can ask me for other scans if you like.
There is also a very incomplete transcription if you want to read the actual book!
The book starts with Druidical and Prehistoric remains and continues on to have Castles, Manors and stately homes, Churches, Abbeys and Cathedrals and much more.
Charles Knight also produced an illustrated edition of the Works of Shakspere, as he spelt it.
There is an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Knight.
Some of the engravings were done by the Dalziel brothers; I have some images from their autobiography, A Record of Work.
Contents
Volume I
Book I. Before the Conquest. [Fig. 1]
Chapter I. The British Period. [Fig. 80]
Chapter II. The Roman Period. [Fig. 189]
Chapter III. The Anglo-Saxon Period.
Book II. The Period From the Norman Conquest to the Death of King John. A.D. 1066—1216.
Chapter I. Regal and Baronial Antiquities.
Chapter II. Ecclesiastical Antiquities.
Chapter III. Popular Antiquities.
Book III. The Period From the Accession of Henry III. to the End of the Reign of Richard II. A.D. 1216—1399.
Chapter I. Regal and Baronial Antiquities. Fig. 814]
Chapter II. Ecclesiastical Antiquities.
Chapter III. Popular Antiquities.
Book IV. The Period From the Accession of Henry IV. to the End of the Reign of Richard III. A.D. 1399—1485. [Fig. 1150]
Chapter I. Regal and Baronial Antiquities.
Chapter II. Ecclesiastical Antiquities.
Chapter III. Popular Antiquities.
Although some of the images here are from Volume II, I plan to move them into their own darling little folder soon, and will make a second table of contents.
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