Old England
Subtitle: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities
By: edited by Charles Knight.
Contributors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Sly, S. fl. 1836-1847.; Leighton Brothers
Publisher: James Sangster and Co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Great Britain -- Antiquities.; Great Britain -- History.
Other titles: Old England, a museum of popular antiquities
Notes: Added illustrated title page dated 1864.

Title page printed in red and black.

Issued originally in 96 parts between 1844-1845, with slight variation in title, by Charles Knight, and in an 1857 edition by Sangster, both with 24 colour plates; text is that of the 1857 Sangster ed.

Publisher's 'Advertisement' refers to 24 rather than 40 colour plates; colour plates with the imprint of Leighton Brothers; also includes 2546 numbered wood engravings in the text.

Some of the plates which originally appeared in the 1845 and 1857 editions retain engraver's signature: S. Sly.

Purchase; Oak Knoll Books (New Castle, DE); June 2007.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, signed JL [i.e. John Leighton].