Pictures from Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley (art teacher at the Polytechnic Institute, London) & Margaret M. Elliot, B.A. Lond. (St. Aloysius Secondary School, London.), Putnam’s, New York and London, 1929.
This book is one of a series; I have several others. I turns out that copyright was renewed for this publication on 28th Feb 1957, so it and the images in it are still under copyright.
![[picture: Front Cover]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/tn/000-front-cover-q75-338x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
The front cover of the book.
![[picture: Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/tn/004-Penshurst-q75-500x375.jpg "[picture: Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).]")
Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).
The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. [more...]
![[picture: 74.---The Siege of a Castle]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/tn/074-The-Siege-of-a-Castle-q75-366x500.jpg "[picture: 74.---The Siege of a Castle]")
“A hand-to-hand fight on a scaling ladder thrown against the battlements; the garrison hurl stones from a catapult. Note primitive cannon.
Reconstructional drawing from various sources by George Kruger Gray.” [more...]
