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Pictures and short extracts from The National and Domestic History of England Volume III (A.D. 1399 – 1603), by William Hickman Smith Aubrey (1858 – 1916). The book is undated, but is probably 1878, since I found someone selling a copy with an inscription dated 1879. The engravings are mostly anonymous, and hence out of copyright; the author died more than 75 years ago, and so the text is out of copyright; any photographs were taken more than 50 years ago and are out of copyright. The status of signed engravings would depend on the artist, but I have not yet uploaded any such items. Check the individual image descriptions for more information.
I originally had a Volume 3 that was only a third of the thickness of volume 2; it turns out to have been from a slightly different edition that had lots of thin volumes instead of three fat ones. I now have all three volumes from the same edition, so some of the images are moving around to their proper places.
Title: The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3)
City: London
Date: 1878
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
This wood-engraving shows the two sides of a shilling from 1699, in the reign of King William III of England. The coin has the King’s portait in profile on one side and shields on the other for Ierland, England, Scotland and Wales.
“It was resolved that the money of the kingdom should be recoined according to the old standard both of weight and of fineness; that all new pieces should be milled [that is, have a texture around the circumference to that you can tell if a coin has been clipped or shaved]; that the loss on the new pieces should be borne by the public; that a time should be fixed after which no clipped money should pass, except in payments to the government; and that a later time should be fixed, after which no clipped money should pass at all. The loss was to be met by the imposition of a tax on windows, which continued to be levied long after the immediate occasion had passed away. (p. 401)
The coin shown here was one of the new ones at the Restoration of the Coinage. You still see older houses in England with windows [more...] [$]
An sketch or line-drawing of an ornate clock from the early eighteenth century (C18, 18th C., the Queen Anne period). This is a detail from Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne. [more...] [$]
Specimens of Furniture, Time of Anne.
A wood-engraved line drawing of various items of Queen Anne furniture arranged in a group. there are three chairs, a stool, a clock on a table, an armoire or [...] [more...] [$]
Rustic twig and leaf border (portrait version)
This full-page border features rustic twigs and stylized acanthus leaves at the corners. It was used to frame portraits of the Victorian Royal Family. [more...] [$]
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