King Arthur Finish:10-pack 'The Setting out of the

'The Setting out of the Train Bands from London to raise the Siege of Gloucester'

Printed by Graf & Soret

Plate 21 from the book Icones selectae hymonomycetum nondum delineatorum

10 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator

King Arthur Finish:10-pack 'The Setting out of theKing 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).