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![[picture: Old England: Photograph of the book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/cimg4699-old-england-book-on-eazel-q75-500x436.jpg "[picture: Old England: Photograph of the book]")
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.
I have typed in the index to the book so that you can ask me for other scans if you like.
I have the first few sections online as Old England: A Pictorial Museum 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.
Chapter I. The British Period. [Fig. 1]
Chapter II. The Roman Period. [Fig. 80]
Chapter III. The Anglo-Saxon Period. [Fig. 189]
Book II. The Period From the Norman Conquest to the Death of King John. A.D. 1066—1216.
Chapter I. Regal and Baronial Antiquities. [Fig. 334]
Chapter II. Ecclesiastical Antiquities. [Fig. 491]
Chapter III. Popular Antiquities. [Fig. 795]
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. [Fig. 929]
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.
Chapter I. Regal and Baronial Antiquities. [Fig. 1150]
Chapter II. Ecclesiastical Antiquities. [Fig. 1279]
Chapter III. Popular Antiquities. [Fig. 1335]
Although some of the images here are from Volume II, I plan to move them into their own darling little folder, and will make a second table of contents.
This book is online at archive.org (Vol I and Vol II), 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.
Title: Old England: A Pictorial Museum
City: London
Date: 1845
Total items: 412
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0089-Roman-Lighthouse-Church-Trenches-in-Dover-Castle-q85-267x200.jpg "[picture: 89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.]")
89. Roman Lighthouse, Church and Trenches in Dover Castle.
In that curious record, in old French, of the foundation of the Castle of Dover, which we find in Dugdale’s ‘Monasticon,’ we are told that when Arviragus reigned in Britain, he refused to be subject to Rome, and withheld the tribute; making the Castle of Dover strong with ditch and wall against the Romans, if they should come. The old British hill-forts [...]
![[picture: Old England: Photograph of the book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/cimg4699-old-england-book-on-eazel-q75-229x200.jpg "[picture: Old England: Photograph of the book]")
Old England: Photograph of the book
I put the book on an artist’s easel and photographed it. This is Old England, printed in 1845. [$]
![[picture: 21.---Four Tumuli at Barlow Hills, Essex]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0021-17.-Four-Tumuli-at-Bartlow-Hills,Essex-q75-671x200.jpg "[picture: 21.---Four Tumuli at Barlow Hills, Essex]")
21.—Four Tumuli at Barlow Hills, Essex
(17) Four tumuli at Barlow Hills, Essex; (18) Gallery of the largest. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/v2p280-st-johns-hall-q75-146x200.jpg "[picture: Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge]")
Chapel of St. John’s College, Cambridge
The chapel is one of the original structures of St. John’s College, the foundation-charter of which is dated April 9, 1511; it forms a part of the east court, or first court, which was completed in 1516, and which then constituted the college. The entire length of the chapel is 120 feet, the breadth 27 feet and it is divided into a chapel and ante-chapel [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: chalices, wassailing bowl, cups]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1425-Group-of-Christening-Gifts-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: chalices, wassailing bowl, cups]")
1425.—Group of Christening Gifts.
Thus Anne Bullen [Anne Boleyn] was at last Queen of England, and Katherine deposed. At first all things smiled upon the beautiful and light-hearted woman who now presided over the domestic arrangements of the court. A dughter—Elizabeth—was born; and loud and long were the congratulations, magnificent the feastings and processions of the christening [...]her maids of honour. It is said that the premature birth of a son was brought on by discovering some unseemly familiarity between Henry and Lady Jane Seymour; and the death of that son in consequence completed her ruin. (p. 23) [more...] [$]
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