The Mansions of England in the Olden Times is a lavish four-volume work compiled by Joseph Nash between 1839 and 1849. Incredibly popular when it was published, the work consists of highly detailed lithographs of some of the most famous (and lesser-known) country houses in England that were first constructed during the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Nash travelled throughout England to create this work and made incredibly accurate sketches of the houses on site. However, rather than including only an image of the buildings and rooms, Nash opted to bring the scenes to life with romantic tableaux of Tudor and Stuart domestic life. This approach was very popular, and the plates were reproduced by many sources, which ranged from academic texts to travel posters. The esteem that this work gave Nash brought him to the attention of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who, in the 1840s, commissioned him to produce drawings and watercolours of court life at Windsor Castle.

This copy of Mansions held by the Royal Library was re-bound during the reign of King George V and combines the four volumes into one, with each of the plates mounted onto new pages and often including the description of the plate given in Nash's prospectus pasted opposite or below.