In the Days of the Guild Author:L. Lamprey With four illustrations in color by Florence Gardiner and numerous line drawings by Mabel Hatt. — Table of Contents: — 1. The Old Road — The Boy with the Woolpack: How Robert Edrupt journeyed with the wool-merchants to London — 2. The Biographer — Basil the Scribe: How an Irish monk in an English Abbey came to stand before kings — 3. Venetian Glass — T... more »he Picture in the Window: How Alan of the Abbey Farms learned to make stained glass
4. Troubadour's Song
The Grasshopper's Library: How Ranulph le Provencal ceased to be a minstrel and became a troubadour
5. The Wood-Carver's Vision
The Box that Quentin Carved: How Quentin of Peronne learned his trade when a boy in Amiens
6. The Caged Bouverel
At the Sign of the Gold Finch: How Guy, the goldsmith's apprentice, won the desire of his heart
7. Up Anchor
The Venture of Nicholas Gay: How Nicholas Gay, the merchant's son, kept faith with a stranger and served the King
8. London Bells
Barbara, the Little Goose-Girl: How Barbara sold geese in the Chepe and what fortune she found there
9. Harper's Song
Richard's Silver Penny: How Richard sold a web of russet and made the best of a bad bargain
10. Perfumer's Song
Mary Lavender's Garden: How Mary Lavender came to be of service to an exiled Queen
11. Pavement Song
Saint Crispin's Day: How Crispin, the shoemaker's son, made a shoe for a little damsel, and new streets in London
12. Concealed Weapons
The Lozenges of Giovanni: How a Milanese baker-boy and a Paduan physician kept poison out of the King's dish
13. A Song of Birds and Beasts
A Dyke in the Danelaw: How David le Saumond changed the course of an ancient nuisance
14. London Bridge
At Bartlemy Fair: How Barty Appleby went to the fair at Smithfield and caught a miscreant
15. Midsummer Day in England
Edwitha's Little Bowl: How Edwitha found Roman pottery in the field of a Sussex farm
16. Song of the Tapestry Weavers
Looms in Minchen Lane: How Cornelys Bat, the Flemish weaver, befriended a black sheep and saved his wool
17. The Wishing Carpet
The Herbalist's Brew: How Tomaso, the physician of Padua, found a cure for a weary soul
18. The Marionettes
The Hurer's Lodgers: How the poppet of Joan, the daughter of the capmaker, went to court and kept a secret
19. Armorer's Song
Dickon at the Forge: How a Sussex smith found the world come to him in the Weald
20. The Wander-Years
The Wings of the Dragon: How Padraig made Irish wit a journeyman to Florentine genius
21. St. Eloi's Blessing
Gold of Byzantium: How Guy of Limoges taught the art of Byzantium to Wilfrid of Sussex
22. The Watchword
Cockatrice Eggs: How Tomaso the physician and Basil the scribe held the keys of Empire« less