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Some pictures from Alt-England: Eine Studienreise (Old England: A Study Tour) by Adolf Brennecke, circa 1885.
I also have Im Wechsel Der Tage (In the change of our days) by the same author.
Title: Alt-England
Published by: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn.
City: Leipzig
Date: 1888
Total items: 8
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
The endpapers of this German book about England have the royal coat of arms printed in gold on a field of a gold repeated stylized oak leaves motif. [more...] [$]
The front cover of this book about Old England features sailing ships at the coast, near a cliff surmounted by a lighthouse. [$]
This is a spectacular view of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. I found a photograph from approximately the same angle in a page on the Historic UK Web site. [more...] [$]
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