King Arthur Finish:10-pack Frontispiece from Discours d'Ambroise Pare

Frontispiece from Discours d'Ambroise Pare

The saloon body is typical of the heavy type of coachwork offered before pressed steel construction became the norm

Plate 21 from the book Icones selectae hymonomycetum nondum delineatorum

A group of street urchins laugh and point at her

King Arthur Finish:10-pack Frontispiece from Discours d'Ambroise PareKing Arthur, 16th century, (1903). Bronze statue made in the 16th century, of the mythical king, said by some to have been born in the 5th century AD. Some theories make him a leader of Silures, an area of ancient Britain occupying what is now Monmouth, Brecon and Glamorgan in Wales. Illustration from 'The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr H F Helmolt, published by William Heinemann, (London, 1903).