A Work of National Importance 



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 Volumes, and a Portfolio 



Bound in Half Sheepskin 660 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 

 accretions 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 1050 numbered copies, of which over 400 

 were subscribed before publication. In no circumstances will the book be 

 reprinted. It has been printed from new type on pure rag paper, specially 

 made for this edition. 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. 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 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. 



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