Old England
Subtitle: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities
By: edited by Charles Knight.
Contributors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.; Sly, S. fl. 1836-1847.; Leighton Brothers
Publisher: James Sangster and Co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Great Britain -- Antiquities.; Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Added illustrated title page dated 1844, but text refers to events of 1851 and 1857.

Issued originally in 96 parts between 1844-1845, with slight variation in title, by Charles Knight; text entirely reset for this edition, with the addition of Book VIII ("A glance at the progress of society for the last hundred years").

Twenty-five colour plates, 2 with the imprint of Leighton Brothers; also includes 2546 numbered wood engravings in the text.

Some plates signed by the engraver: S. Sly.

Text printed by William Clowes and Sons.

MASS copy: With an extra double colour plate not enumerated in the list of plates: The palace at Westminster "presented to each subscriber ... by Sangster and Co."; some plates misbound.

MASS copy: Bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards.