The ^'^ Country Life" Library 



WINDSOR CASTLE 



AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 



Collected and written by command of Their Majesties QUEEN VICTORIA, 

 KING EDWARD VII and KING GEORGE V. 



By SIR WILLIAM H. ST. JOHN HOPE, Litt.D., D.C.L. 



Imperial Quarto, in Two Volumes, and a Portfolio. Bound in Half Sheep- 

 skin, £7 17s. 6d. net ; Whole Sheepskin, £10 los. net ; Full Morocco> 

 £13 2S. 6d. net. 



"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. The story of English Build- 

 ing during eight centuries is very fuUy written in the stones 

 of Windsor, but not so that every one may read. The slow 

 accretions of centuries are not easy to disentangle, and it 

 needed the skiU and wide archaeological experience of Sir 

 WOiam 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 limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which 

 nearly 400 were subscribed prior to pubUcation. 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 Csistle 

 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 work is issued in two sumptuous volumes, together 

 with a portfolio containing 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- 



The Times says : " A piece of historical research and reconstruction 

 of which all who have been concerned in it may be proud." 



The Manchester Guardian says ■ " It may at once be safely said that 

 no monograph on a single building has ever before been attempted on 

 such a scale or has been carried out in so sumptuous and at the same time 

 so scholarly a manner." 



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