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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: 407
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 97.---Roman Soldiers.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0097-Roman-Soldiers-q85-195x200.jpg "[picture: 97.---Roman Soldiers.]")
![[picture: 98.---Plan of Richborough.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0098-Plan-of-Richborough-q85-159x200.jpg "[picture: 98.---Plan of Richborough.]")
A (rather minimal) plan of Richborough castle, an ancient Roman fort on the south-east coast of England, dating to maybe A.D. 43. There is also an amphitheatre at the site. Richborough was the first Roman fort in England, and marks the start of [...]Rutupiæ. The account in the book (following) is a little confused about which parts were built when and by whom. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 99.---Richborough. General View, from the East.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0099-Richborough-General-View-from-the-East-q85-613x200.jpg "[picture: 99.---Richborough. General View, from the East.]")
99.—Richborough. General View, from the East.
Giant and ancient ruined stone walls on a sharp rise dwarf a small cottage. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 100.---North Wall of Richborough.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0100-North-Wall-of-Richborough-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: 100.---North Wall of Richborough.]")
100.—North Wall of Richborough.
A man hunts with rifle and dog beside the overgrown Roman walls of Richborough in Southern England. See Fig. 99 for the extract from the book. [$]
![[picture: 101.---Plan of the Platform and Cross, Richborough]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0101-Plan-of-the-Platform-and-Cross-Richborough-q90-680x200.jpg "[picture: 101.---Plan of the Platform and Cross, Richborough]")
101.—Plan of the Platform and Cross, Richborough
This appears to be a side view, or elevation, rather than a plan, of the platform and cross-shaped mound at the Roman fort of Richborough. See Fig. 98 for more details. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 102.---Bronze, found at Richborough.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0102-Bronze-found-at-Richborough-q90-319x200.jpg "[picture: 102.---Bronze, found at Richborough.]")
102.—Bronze, found at Richborough.
A woodcut showing three views of a bronze statuette, supposedly Ancient Roman, depicting a Roman soldier playing the bagpipes. I couldnot find a modern picture of the object. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 103.---Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0103-Ruins-of-the-Ancient-Church-of-Reculver-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: 103.---Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver.]")
103.—Ruins of the Ancient Church of Reculver.
The Roman remains still existing at Reculver are less interesting than those at Richborough, chiefly because they are of less magnitude and are more dilapidated. Very close to the ruins of the ancient church, whose spires were once held in such reverence that ships entering the Thames were wont to lower their top-sails as they passed (Fig. 103), is [...]cester indicating a camp; that name changes when the camp has perished, and the great abbey is flourishing, to Raculfminster; the camp and the abbey have both perished, and we have come back to the Latin Regulbium, in its Anglicised form of Reculver. Some fiercer destruction even than that which swept away the abbey probably fell upon the Roman city. Gibson, speaking of the coins and jewellery which have been found at various times at Reculver, says, “These they find here in such great quantities that we must needs conclude it to have been a place heretofore of great extent, and very populous, and that it has one time or other underwent some great devastation, either by war or fire, or both. I think I may be confident of the latter, there being many patterns found of metals run together.” The antiquities of Regulbium are fully described in the elegant Latin treatise of Dr. Battely, ’Antiquitates Rutupinæ,’ 1711. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 104.---Plan of Porchester Castle, Hants.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/0104-Plan-of-Porchester-Castle-Hants-q90-181x200.jpg "[picture: 104.---Plan of Porchester Castle, Hants.]")
104.—Plan of Porchester Castle, Hants.
[...] the fact is certain that in several of the undoubted Roman castles, or camps, is a small building of cruciform shape, placed not far from the centre of the enclosure. At Porchester (Fig. 104) and at Dover these buildings have become churches. The chronicler of Dover Castle says (See Appendix, No. 1, to Dugdale’s Account of the Nunnery of St. Martin), [...] [more...] [$]
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