The finest Architectural Monograph ever published in this country. 



WINDSOR CASTLE 



AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 



Collected and written by command of Their {Majesties 



QUEEN VICTORIA 

 KING EDWARD VII. and 

 KING GEORGE V. 



By W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, Litt.D., D.C.L. 



Imperial Quarto, in two sumptuous Volumes, and a Portfolio. 



Bound in Half Sheepskin - 66 net 

 Whole Sheepskin - 880,, 



Full Morocco 10 10 



WINDSOR CASTLE stands alone among the buildings of Great 

 Britain. It is the greatest among our early fortresses and the most 

 splendid of Royal Palaces. It includes within its walls a rich 

 example of the most typically English phase of Gothic Architecture 

 St. George's Chapel, the home of the Knights of the oldest existing order 

 of Chivalry in Christendom, the most noble Order of the Garter. The 

 story of English building during eight centuries is very fully written in the 

 stones of Windsor, but not so that everyone may read. The slow accre- 

 tions of centuries are not easy to disentangle, and it needed the skill and 

 wide archaeological experience of Mr. W. H. St. John Hope to set out in 

 its true proportions the fascinating story of the growth of this great 

 architectural organism. 



The edition is strictly limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which 

 nearly 400 were subscribed before publication. In no circumstances will 

 the book be reprinted. It is illustrated by exquisite reproductions in 

 colour of drawings by Paul Sandby ; by a large number of collotype 

 plates reproducing a unique collection of original drawings, engravings 

 and photographs which show the Castle at every stage of its development ; 

 as well as by beautiful woodcuts, prepared expressly by the great engraver 

 Orlando Jewitt for this History, when it was first projected. The 

 Portfolio contains a notable reproduction of Norden's View of Windsor 

 and a complete series of plans, specially printed in fourteen colours, which 

 show the dates of all the buildings in the Castle and their successive 

 changes. Many of the illustrations are reproduced for the first time, by 

 special permission of His Majesty the King, from originals in the Royal 

 Library at Windsor. 



The text is printed from new type on pure rag paper, specially made 

 for this edition, and the volumes are produced in a way which does the 

 fullest justice to a work of national importance. 



