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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.

This book is online at archive.org, although the OCR has done a really bad job, and the scans are lower resolution and not cleaned up. But you could use it to request a specific image, and I will scan it for you if it’s not here yet.

82.—Roman General, Standard Bearers, etc.

82.—Roman General, Standard Bearers, etc.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Here are some Roman soldiers in suitable effeminate poses as they reach the shore by crossing a bridge supported by their boats. It was here, then, that the British and Roman weapons first came into c [...]

Keywords: boats, weapons, soldiers, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-07

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

888.—Dover Cliffs.

888.—Dover Cliffs.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The white cliffs of dover, complete with fishing boats. The plate is signed “SIBLY” but that could be the original artist or the engraver (or both). “In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-18

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827.—Carnarvon Castle.

827.—Carnarvon Castle.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

There is another similar but larger engraving of Caernarvon Castle in Woodward’s History of Wales. “[Edward I] proceeded to institute a series of wise regulations to render them [the Welsh] submissive [...]

Keywords: castles, water, boats, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Caernarvon; Gwynnedd; Wales

Added: 2005-12-20

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390.—Cardiff Castle

390.—Cardiff Castle

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

as it appeared in 1775. First built around 1090, Cardiff castle was extensively rebuilt in the 19th Century. Cardiff Castle Web site “Fortunate was it for the country when a prince arose of such decid [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, birds, trees, water, boats, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cardiff; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2005-12-20

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57.—Ancient British Canoes.

57.—Ancient British Canoes.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Some of the Roman writers might lead us to believe that the Britons had boats capable of distant navigation; but this is doubted by most careful inquirers. But the light boats which were peculiar to [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-07

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86.—Prow of a Roman Galley.

86.—Prow of a Roman Galley.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: soldiers, boats, weapons, shields, roman soldiers, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-24

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58.—British Coracles.

58.—British Coracles.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The primitive inhabitants of all sea-girt countries are fishermen. It is impossible not to believe that the people of Britain, having at their command the treasures of wide æstuaries and deep rivers, [...]

Keywords: people, boats, water

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-07

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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