A HAND-BOOK FOR THE ARCHITECTURE, TAPESTRIES, PAINTINGS, OF HAMPTON COURT: With numerous Embellishments. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Extracts from Public Records, now first printed, illustrative of the Original BY FELIX SUMMERLY, nieudom AUTHOR OF MAND-BOOKS FOR THE NATIONAL GALLERY, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, GEORGE BELL, 186, FLEET STREET. 518 742761 ANY 10 1863 The Copyright of this Work is registered pursuant to HARVARD Jul 1 1975 HE most important additions to the present revised and enlarged edition, are the Historical Notes and Illustrations. The extracts from the accounts of works executed at Hampton Court in the reign of Henry VIII. not only fix beyond dispute the time of the actual erection of the great Hall, and of other parts of the palace, but they throw much light on the architectural and decorative arts, as well as on the value of the labour of the artisan of the Tudor period. The abstract of the parliamentary survey of Hampton Court, being one of King Charles the First's possessions, made during the Commonwealth in A.D. 1653, and now, I believe, first printed, enables us to form a better idea of the extent and character of the original palace, than any existing means that I am at present acquainted with. In other respects, the general plan of the Hand-book remains much the same as in the first edition, published in 1841. I mention the date lest any likeness between the present and other works on the same subject should lead to the inference that I had been borrowing freely elsewhere. Before concluding, I perform a most agreeable duty in thanking the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Delawarr, for his kindness in procuring for me Her Majesty's most gracious permission to examine all the pictures, both in the state and private apartments at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace; also the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and their very obliging Secretary, for the facilities generally afforded me in revising this Edition. |