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 Sheepskin, 
£6 6s. net ; Whole Sheepskin, £8 8s. net; Full Morocco, £10 10s. 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 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 
Sir William H. St. John Hope to set out in its true propor- 
tions the fascinating story of the growth of this great archi- 
tectural organism. 
The edition is limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which 
nearly 400 were subscribed prior to publication. 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 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.” 
