Munimenta antiqua: or, Observations on antient castles. Including remarks on the whole progress of architecture, ecclesiastical. as well as military, in Great Britain; and on the corresponding changes, in manners, laws, and customs. Tending both to illustrate modern history; and to elucidate many interesting passages in various antient classic authors
Munimenta antiqua, published in London in 1799 by Edward King with plates by Joseph Constantine Stadler and George Richardson, is a scholarly antiquarian study of medieval castles and early English architecture for historians and antiquaries. The plates are engraved views of ruined towers, castle keeps and arches, some set in landscape, showing the surviving stonework; a designer might take their rugged masonry, arched openings and ivy-covered ruins as reference for picturesque Gothic settings.
