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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: Coronation of Henry IV (Harleian MS. No, 4679)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1151-Coronation-of-Henry-IV-q75-284x200.jpg "[picture: Coronation of Henry IV (Harleian MS. No, 4679)]")
Coronation of Henry IV (Harleian MS. No, 4679)
The image is taken, I think, from Harly MS. 4380, folio 186, verso; this is the second volums of Froissart’s Chromicles Vol IV part 2 (1470), and was drawn some three hundred years after the event. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 1153.---Henry IV.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1153-Henry-IV-q75-161x200.jpg "[picture: 1153.---Henry IV.]")
A portrait of Henry IV showing his face, and of course his kingly crown. [$]
![[picture: 1156.---Tomb of Henry IV and his Queen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1156-Tomb-of-Henry-IV-and-his-Queen-q75-294x200.jpg "[picture: 1156.---Tomb of Henry IV and his Queen]")
1156.—Tomb of Henry IV and his Queen
One day whilst he was praying before the shrine of [Edward] the confessor in Westminster Ammey, he was seized with an apoplectic fit. The attendants carried him to the abbot’s apartments, and there laid him down in the chamber which still exists, apparently unaltered against the corner of the western [...]Jerusalem Chamber,” was the answer. Here Henry IV. died. He was buried at Canterbury, where a sumptuous table-monument (Fig. 1156) bears the effegies of himself and his seconf wife, Joan of Naverre. Portraits of both, with the great seal, will be found among our illustrations (Figs. 1153, 1155). (p. 335) [more...] [$]
![[picture: 1250.---Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1250-Archers-14th-century-q85-267x200.jpg "[picture: 1250.---Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.)]")
1250.—Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.)
Three archers, or bowmen, pose for us: the leftmost carries a bow and a shield, or possibly a quiver, slung around his waist and hanging at his right hip; the middle archer has a sword and a bow; the rightmost archer carries a [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: 1251.---Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1251-Storming-a-Fort-q75-230x200.jpg "[picture: 1251.---Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.)]")
1251.—Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.)
A few words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of a town (Fig. 1252), and the chief machines used on such occasions, namely, the breaching and the moveable towers (Figs. 1253 and 1274). Cannon we see were now in constant use. [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: 1252.---Siege of a Town.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1252-Siege-of-a-town-q70-267x200.jpg "[picture: 1252.---Siege of a Town.]")
A few words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of a town (Fig. 1252), and the chief machines used on such occasions, namely, the breaching and the moveable towers (Figs. 1253 and 1274). Cannon we see were now in constant use. [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: 1152.---Great Seal of Henry IV.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1152-Great-Seal-of-henry-IV-q50-417x200.jpg "[picture: 1152.---Great Seal of Henry IV.]")
![[picture: 1154.---Signature of Henry IV.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/wm/big/1154-Signature-of-Henry-IV-q75-255x200.jpg "[picture: 1154.---Signature of Henry IV.]")
