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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/tn/000-front-cover-q75-338x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Pictures from Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley (art teacher at the Polytechnic Institute, London) & Margaret M. Elliot, B.A. Lond. (St. Aloysius Secondary School, London.), Putnam’s, New York and London, 1929.
This book is one of a series; I have several others. I turns out that copyright was renewed for this publication on 28th Feb 1957, so it and the images in it are still under copyright. However, pictures in the book that reproduce out-of-copyright images are themselves out of copyright.
Title: Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century
Published by: G. P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Date: 1929
Total items: 3
copyright registered to Dorothy Hartley and Margaret M. Elliot, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/wm/big/000-front-cover-135x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
The front cover of the book. [$]
![[picture: 74.---The Siege of a Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/wm/big/074-The-Siege-of-a-Castle-q75-146x200.jpg "[picture: 74.---The Siege of a Castle]")
“A hand-to-hand fight on a scaling ladder thrown against the battlements; the garrison hurl stones from a catapult. Note primitive cannon.
Reconstructional drawing from various sources by George Kruger Gray.”
George Kruger Gray died in 1943, so his work on this picture will remain copyright until the end of 2013.
“Attackers could head straight for gates or vulnerable points under movable covers, or erect scaffoldings (p. 74) to bring them above the level of the castle walls—another reason for clearing the castle [more...] [$]
![[picture: Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Putnam-LifeAndWork-14th/wm/big/004-Penshurst-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).]")
Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).
The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. [more...] [$]
Pictures from Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley (art teacher at the Polytechnic Institute, London) & Margaret M. Elliot, B.A. Lond. (St. Aloysius Secondary School, London.), Putnam’s, New York and London, 1929.
This book is one of a series; I have several others. I turns out that copyright was renewed for this publication on 28th Feb 1957, so it and the images in it are still under copyright. However, pictures in the book that reproduce out-of-copyright images are themselves out of copyright.
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