This history of Windsor Castle and the Order of the Garter was published by the Eton bookseller Joseph Pote in 1749. Pote was an enterprising publisher. Initially based near Charing Cross, he began to assist the widow of Thomas Bartlet at Eton around 1729. It is unknown when he moved to Eton but once established in the town, he began to publish books and journals for both the college and the wider community.

Due to its binding, this book was one of those selected by Olwen Hedley in the 1960s as a fine example of bookbinding in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Hedley’s ‘Additional Bookbindings’ serve as a supplement to the catalogue of fine bindings compiled in 1893 by the Royal Librarian Richard Rivington Holmes.