A Work of National Importance 



Windsor Castle 



AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 



Collected and written hy Command of Their Majesties 



OUEEN 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 - £6 6 net 

 „ Whole Sheepskin- 8 8 0,, 

 „ 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 fuOy 

 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 1 ,050 numbered copies, of which over 

 400 were subscribed before publication. It has been printed from new type 

 on pure rag paper, specially made for this edition. It is illustrated by ex- 

 quisite reproductions in colour of draAvings by Paul Sandby ; by a large 

 number of collotype plates reproducing a unique collection of original draw- 

 ings, engravings and photographs which show tlie castle at every stage of its 

 development ; as well as by beautiful woodcuts, prepared expressly by the 

 great engraver Orlando Jewitt for this Histoi*>', when it was first projected. 

 Slany of the illustrations are reproduced for the first time, by special per- 

 mission of Plis 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. 



