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![[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-356x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]")
Pictures from The History of Wales by B. B. Woodward, B.A., London, (Quarto, 1853 [First edition] vi + (ii) + 608pp, illustrated with 76 steel-engraved plates)
If you use these pictures for anything, or would like me to scan more, let me know. You can refer to the list of illustrations. All of these images are out of copyright (in the public domain). Henry Gastineau (the principal artist) died in 1876.
There is a low-quality scan of this entire book at Google Books but they forgot to scan the plates, I think.
Title: History of Wales
City: London
Date: 1853
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Ragland (Raglan) Castle, Monmouthshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/15-Ragland-Castle-328x200.jpg "[picture: Ragland (Raglan) Castle, Monmouthshire]")
![[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, History of Wales]")
![[picture: Plate 63.---Flint Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/63-Flint-castle-316x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 63.---Flint Castle]")
![[picture: The Wye at Aberedwy]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/14-the-wye-at-aberedwy-323x200.jpg "[picture: The Wye at Aberedwy]")
Plate 14.—The Wye at Aberedwy.
Drawn by H. Gastineau, Engraved by S. Lacey.
A stunning view of the Wye Valley. The modern name of Aberedwy is Aberedw. [$]
![[picture: 42.---Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HistoryOfWales/wm/big/42-Denbigh-Castle-q75-315x200.jpg "[picture: 42.---Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire]")
42.—Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire
The book does not discuss Denbigh Castle at all as far as I can tell. The castle was started in the 1280s by Edward I; like so many castles in Britain it was demolished as part of the English Civil War, in this case after a four-month [...] [more...] [$]
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