Windsor Castle

Sir Owen Morshead

Published by Phaidon, hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated.

For those who desire to know about Windsor Castle, there are few books which are at the same time scholarly and readable. Here is a book which may be read with pleasure both for ease of style and its command of the subject. Moreover, it is illustrated by over 80 splendid photographs, specially commissioned for this volume.

Sir Owen Morshead, former Royal Librarian, lived within the castle for thirty years, and is still recognised as the leading expert on its history. In a swift and masterly narrative he traces its development through nine centuries of its royal occupation. He reveals it both a stronghold and as home, thus completing the picture of a building which stirs the imagination of all.