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The Annals of Windsor
Tighe and Davis, 1858

Corporation Seal

Further set expected shortly


A History of Eton College
1911


Restoration
The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle
First Edition 1997
Adam Nicholson


Royal Castle, Rebel Town

S R South


Windsor
The Most Romantic Castle
First Edition 1993, Girouard


The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle
Pote, 1749,


Windsor Castle
in the History of the Nation
A. L. Rowse


  A truly rare Antiquarian publication, now available as an eBook

Windsor Park and Forest

William Menzies, 1904

A Short History of the Park and Forest



A rare opportunity to purchase this comprehensive history of Windsor.

Offered in support of The Royal Windsor Website

Annals of Windsor

'A History of the Castle and Town with some account of ETON
and places adjacent'

Robert Richard Tighe
and
James Edward Davis

Longman Browen Green, Longmans and Roberts

Two volumes. Royal 8vo

First Edition. 1858

Volume 1 - 705 pages
Volume 2 - 752 pages

4 fold-out illustrations (some in colour), 2 fold-out coloured maps, 50 black & white woodcuts.

Indexed.

Illustrations

Henry VIII Gateway, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Norden's View of The Castle (From The Harl. Ms., No. 3749)
Eton College, from Sir Henry Savile's Monument in Merton Chapel
Hofnagle's View of The Castle in the Reign of Elizabeth
Norden's Map of Windsor Forest (Fold Out)
Norden's Plan of The Little Park (Fold Out)
Datchet Ferry and Datchet Mead in 1686 (From The Sutherland Collection)

Woodcuts

Seal of The Castle (From The Add. Mss., Brit. Mus.)
Salt Hill, from a sketch by Mrs. J. E. Davis
Vineyard in the Castle Ditch (From a Lease in the possession of Mr. Secker)
Runimede, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Burnham Abbey, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis .
Bell Tower, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Old Houses in Eton from a sketch by Mr Fairholt
Garter Tower, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis .
Winchester Tower, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
The "Twin Sisters" in the Great Park (From a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield)
Font in Clewer Church, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
The Castle From The Great Park, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
The Castle From The Brocas, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
The Canons' Houses, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Eton College and The Brocas Elms, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis.
Tomb of Edward The Fourth, from an original sketch
Bray Church, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
Burnham Church, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield.
Henry VIII Gateway, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Part of The Town of Windsor, from a Painting of The Seventeenth Century in Greenwich Hospital
Old Stocks in the Cloisters, from a sketch by Mr. Fairholt
Old House in Peascod Street, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis.
Arms of Richard Gallis, Drawn by Mr. W. J. Bernhard Smith
Royal Bakehouse, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
The Garter Inn, from Norden's View
Hog Hole, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Sir John Falstaff's Oak, from: Collier's Map
Herne's Oak, Paul Sandby's Drawing
Herne's Oak, from Ireland's 'Views On The Thames'
Plan of The Elm Avenue in the Little Park, Drawn by Mr. G. R Jesse
Oak in the Elm: Avenue, from a sketch by Mr. G. R. Jesse
Seal of The Corporation, from The Add. Mss., Brit. Museum
Priests' Houses, from: a Pen and Ink Sketch in Gibbon The Herald's Copy of Ashmole
The Castle From Queen Adelaide's Tree, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
The Deanery, from a sketch by Mr. J. E Davis
Windsor Church and The Town Hall, from Knyff's Drawing
Spur of The Seventeenth Century, Drawn by Mrs. J. E. Davis
Burnham: Beeches, from: a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield 
The Christopher Inn, Eton, from: a sketch by Mr. G. R. Jesse
Manor House, Datchet, from: a sketch by Mrs. J. E. Davis
Upper Ward of The Castle Towards The East, from Hollar's Drawing in the Ash. Mss.
Lower Ward of The Castle, from Hollar's Drawing in the Ash. Mss.
Wall of The Home Park, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
Queen Anne's Well At Chalvey, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis
The Castle in the Reign of George The Second
Upton Church, Prom a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
Windsor Bridge, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
Eton College, from a sketch by The Hon. Mrs. W. Wingfield
Datchet Bridge, from a sketch by Mr. J. E. Davis

Condition

TBA of forthcoming editions for sale, one of which will be a professionally rebound set.

Special Offer Price £TBA plus Post and Packing

Following the sale of our Special Offer edition, we are expecting a further set to come available shortly.

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Windsor Castle
in the History of the Nation

A. L. Rowse

Weidenfeld and Nicholson

First Edition. 1974

246mm x 185mm, 254pps, 16 large colour plates, 83 half tones, some double page, hard back. All pages clean and very sound. Colour dust jacket. Binding very sound and tight. Some ageing and scuffs but this is otherwise an excellent example of an important work about the castle, its inhabitants and the part it played in the development of England through the ages. Dedicated to "US Ambassador Walter Annenberg in recognition of his many benefactions to Britain".

Chapters are: Medieval Power and Chivalry, Tudor Historic Decisions, Stuart Crises and Amenities, The Revolution and Queen Anne, Hanoverian Neglect: Georgian Domesticity, George IV and Wyatville, The Victorian Age, Edwardian and Georgian Epilogue.

Fully indexed.

Please quote Ref: Rowse Windsor Castle

Limited Stock

Price £16.95 incl. UK Post and Packing

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Windsor
The Most Romantic Castle

First Edition 1993

Mark Girouard

262mm x 200mm, 160pps, 12 half tones, limp sewn. Coloured endpaper (front) of early (1700s) colour birds eye view of castle. Royal lodgings (plan) in Charles II's time, (back).

Condition as new in all respects.

Lavishly illustrated with some 210 illustrations mainly in colour of the castle interiors from many ages and including sketches for the reconstruction for the State Apartments following the fire of 1992.

Please quote Ref: Windsor Girouard

One Copy Only!!
(New price £20.00)

Price £13.95
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The History and Antiquities
of Windsor Castle

Joseph Pote

1749

 

The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle and the Royal College, and Chapel of St.George.

"With the Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, including the several foundations in the Castle, from their first establishment to the present time.

"With an account of the town and corporation of Windsor the Royal Apartments and paintings in the castle, the ceremonies of the installation of the Knight of the Garter, also an account of the first founders, and their successors, knights Companion, to the present time, with their several styles or titles, at large, from their plates in the Choir of St George's Chapel, the Succession of the Deans and Prebends of Windsor, the Alms Knights, the Monumental, and Ancient Inscriptions, with other particulars not mentioned by any author."


Imprimatur leaf, title in red and black, dedication in red, list of subscribers, engraved portrait, folding plan and 11 plates, some folding, later half calf, some rubbing. Published Eton, 1749

Very rare

Price £155.95
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A truly rare Antiquarian book

Windsor Park and Forest

 NB This book is now only available as an eBook on CD or by email

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William Menzies, 1904

A Short History of the Park and Forest

From the Preface: "This volume is dedicated to the memory of my father, William Menzies, whose official position as deputy Surveyor of Windsor Great Park and Forest for twenty-nine years afforded him, special opportunities for obtaining reliable information relating to the Royal Domain. I have largely availed myself of his original work published in 1864 which was the first history of Windsor Park and Forest ever produced and the earliest published work illustrated by photographs. A few of these are reproduced specially for this volume, the trees having changed so little in character the illustrations represent them practically as they are at the present day." William Menzies. 1904.

The original cover

One of the full page illustrations

Description

This very rare publication was related to the equally rare Windsor Park and Forest of 1864. Includes map of the Great Park with indication of route to be taken to follow descriptions in the text, 28 pictures, Appendix of tree growths, 1888 & 1904.

Index lists the following: Ascot Race Course, Belvidere Wood, Caesar's Camp, Cedar Drive, Coronation Oak, Cranbourne Tower, Cumberland Lodge, Diamond Jubilee Oak, Enclosure of the Forest, Fishing Cottage, Forest Gate, Goat of the Welsh Fusiliers, Herne's Oak, Heronry, Holly Grove, King Edward VII's Oak, King of Italy's Oak, King of Portugal's Oak, Largest tree in the Royal Domain, Lime Tree Avenue, Long Walk, Maiden Oak Plantation at Cranbourne, Mistletoe Oak, Norden's Map of the Park, Oak Leaf Roller Moth, Obelisk, Parish Boundary Trees, Plantations made since 1861, Pollards, Prince Consort's Memorial Oak, Prince Consort's Plantation, Prince Consort's Statue, Prince Consort's Workshops, Prince of Wales' Silver Wedding Oak, Private Chapel, Queen Adelaide's Beech, Queen Anne's Drive, Queen Anne's Oak, Queen Charlotte's Oak, Queen Victoria's Avenue, Queen Victoria's Oak, Racehorse "Eclipse", Royal and Military Reviews, Rhododendron Walk, Royal Agricultural Society's Jubilee Show, Royal Vinery, Ruins at Virginia Water, Scarlet Oak Avenue, Smith's Lawn, Statue on Snow Hill, Surveys of Timber, Swinley, Virginia Water, White Deer Enclosure, William the Conquerer's Oak.

 NB This book is now only available as an eBook.

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Royal Castle, Rebel Town

Puritan Windsor in Civil War & Commonwealth

S R South, 1981

Limited Edition copy no. 42
Signed by the author

 

FRONT COVER: Cromwell's cabinet, with the Devil - and Cornelius
Holland, Windsor's MP (extreme left). (SNPG)

A near perfect copy, perfect binding, cover boards and dust jacket. Just two lightly marked pages. Hardly perceptible fading to spine.

For a thousand years Windsor has been a Royal town - except for two decades in the 17th century. This book is about those 20 years of drama, intrigue and civil war.

From 1640, when the town sent two puritans to Parliament, until the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Windsor was anti-king, a stronghold of puritan politics and preaching, and ultimately the source of Cromwell's New Model Army.

Before the storm broke, Charles I hawked and hunted forest and park, pleasured in his castle and prayed in St George's Chapel. By October '42, Parliament held the castle. Prince Rupert attacked it, but failed, and the only Royalists to see inside were prisoners of war.

In 1643 the Dean and Canons of St George's were thrown out, and those of their treasures not hastily hidden were systematically plundered. The town itself was host to thousands of troops, mostly short of pay, and troops and town stripped forest and parks of anything they could eat or burn.

The King returned to Windsor twice as a captive, once on his way to Whitehall and death, and lastly for burial. As the parish record states: 'King Charles in the Castle'.

If the King's shadow lay heavy on Windsor, other men held the local stage - the fanatic Cornelius Holland, tough John Venn, strongman Whichcot, accommodating Bulstrode Whitelocke. Cromwell, Fairfax, Ireton and Essex came and went; indeed the Army Council ran much of the nation's business here. Leveller Lillburne stayed at the Garter, where the Revolutionary Agreement of the People was drafted; another Leveller, John Wildman lived up to his reputation, and captured the castle after Cromwell's death. Enforced guests included the crazy Christopher Feake, devious George Villiers and notorious Capt. Browne Bushell. These and many others crowd the narrative of those turbulent years.

Finally, Capt. Harry Nicholls took the castle for the King in 1660, and six years later life returned to normal, with Pepys' telling comment: 'the most romantique castle in the world'.

ROYAL CASTLE, REBEL TOWN tells the story of Windsor's role in the Civil War and Commonwealth for the first time in full detail. Published in limited and general editions, it will appeal to Windsorians, and to students of the period, both as an entertaining and fascinating narrative, and as a significant contribution to our understanding of small-town life in 17th century England.

S R South, b. 1907, was Senior History Master at Windsor Grammar School from 1930 - 1968, past Chairman of the Windsor and Eton Society, and a Labour councillor for Windsor for 36 years. He published a number of carefully researched books about Windsor.

ISBN0860231313        £13.95 incl. P&P in UK

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A rare 1911 edition

A History of Eton College

(1440-1910)

LYTE, Sir H. C. Maxwell, K.C.B.

Fourth Edition. Revised throughout & greatly enlarged. Published by Macmillan, London Fourth Edition, 1911. Hard cover, 627pp. Octavo, 73/4" x 93/4". Ten plates with tissue guards and a coloured folding map of the School as well as a large number of woodcuts in the text.

Please note - white at foot is over exposed picture. Binding is as top of spine.

Price £36.95
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Condition

Slightly rubbed and bumped corners. Prelim illustration detached, otherwise VG; Tight binding. A beautiful book.

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