WINCHESTER. Painted by Wildfrid Ball, R.E., described by Rev. Telford Varley, M.A., B.Sc.

1910 1st edition. Large 8vo (162 x 226mm). Ppxii,201,ii[ads]. 24 plates of colour paintings by Wildfrid Ball. Top edge gilt. Gilt coat of arms and titles in lime-green ruled borders to blue cloth, lime-green ruled borders and gilt titles to spine.

"The following volume treats in somewhat fuller detail the Winchester sections of the larger work on Hampshire published last year under similar auspices." Chapters include: Wynchester, that jolly cite; Early days; The Roman occupation; Saxon Winchester; The capital of England; Alfred; Alfred's death and sixty years after; Aethelwold, saint and bishop; The capital of the Danish Empire; Norman Winchester; Later Norman days; A great bishop, Henry of Blois; Angevin and Plantagenet; Fourteenth and fifteenth century Winchester; The monastic life; The cathedral; The college; Wolvesey, St. Cross, the Castle Hall, the Round Table; Winchester in literature. A and C Black Colour Book No 187 - one of only 2000 copies.