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carts: a wheeled vehicle pushed by hand or drawn by an animal such as a horse or ox.

Synonyms: horse cart, donkey cart, ponycart, barrow

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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.

915.—Southampton Gate: North Front.

915.—Southampton Gate: North Front.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A castellated (fortified) tower with a cout of arms, various statues, and an arched entrance; a horse and cart are going through, and a man wearing a top hat pushes a barrow.

Keywords: castles, entrances, arches, carts

Places shown: Southampton; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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

1375.—Shooting at Butts

1375.—Shooting at Butts

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A “butt” is an old name for a target used for longbow archery practice; the place where people practice to fire arrows is called an archery butts. The targets were usually placed on mounds of earth. [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, knights, people, carts

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-12

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

2106.—Inn at Charmouth.

2106.—Inn at Charmouth.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I’m not sure if The Queens Arms is the same place. let me know!

Keywords: inns, animals, people, horses, carts, streets, cobbles, christmas

Places shown: Charmouth; Dorset; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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

74.—Welsh Agricultural Cart

74.—Welsh Agricultural Cart

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“There are no remains of those terrible war-chariots of the Britons which Cæsar describes as striking terror into his legions. King, who labours very hard to prove that the people who stood up not onl [...]

Keywords: carts, trees, horses, animals, agriculture

Places shown: Wales

Added: 2007-04-16

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

32.—Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire

32.—Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving of Silbury Hill, near Avebury; a man leads a team of horses pulling a hay wain, on top of which sits a boy. A man and woman walk alongside. In the background lies the great hill, and in [...]

Keywords: people, carts, trees, hills, views, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles

Places shown: Silbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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

75.—British War Chariot, Shield and Spears.

75.—British War Chariot, Shield and Spears.

Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A war chariot, with scythed blades coming out from the wheels, lies with an axe (US: ax, battle-axe, battle-ax) underneath it, and with two spears and a shield resting on it. “There are no remains of [...]

Keywords: weapons, carts, chariots

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-27

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

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