The Doomed City; or, the Last days of Durocina. A tale of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain, and the mission of Augustine
A historical novel for young readers by Augustine David Crake, published in London in 1889, retelling the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain and Augustine's mission. The plates in the index are a single repeated headpiece ornament: a rectangular ruled panel of symmetrical acanthus scrollwork around a central fleur-de-lis, with small cross-hatched squares in the lower corners, drawn in clean black line suited to reuse as a chapter rule, divider, or border unit.
