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BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND ARTIST ASWINCHESTER.HAMPSHIREPainted byWILFRID BALL, R.E.Described by Rev.TELFORD VARLEY, M.A.,B.Sc.CONTAINING 75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURSquare Demy 8vo.Cloth.Gilt Top.PRICE20/-NET. (By Post, price 20s. 6d.)SOME PRESS OPINIONS“Mr. Ball’s pictures are delightfully fresh, and recall many pleasant scenes to the reader who knows the county.”—Manchester Guardian.“Hampshireis essentially a book to keep on a handy shelf in the bookcase, where it can be easily taken down and read with never-failing delight and pleasure.”—Queen.“The Rev. Telford Varley describes vividly and with great charm the many beauties of this county, while Mr. Wilfrid Ball’s pictures are exquisitely beautiful.”—The Tatler.“Mr. Varley’sHampshireis a delightful book, entertaining, instructive, and reliable; and withal it is delightfully and copiously illustrated.”—Bournemouth Visitors’ Directory.OTHER COUNTIES IN THE SAME SERIESSquare Demy 8vo.Cloth.Gilt Top.ESSEXPainted byL. Burleigh Bruhl, R.B.A.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“Nothing more delightful could be imagined in the way of illustrated topographical literature than Essex.”—Illustrated London News.“Altogether it is an admirable book.”—Globe.——————KENTPainted byW. Biscombe Gardner.Described byW. Teignmouth Shore.Containing 73 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“The acme of the reproductive art is reached in the colour facsimiles of the artist’s sketches of the famous cathedrals and castles, the antique houses and quaint villages, the parks, rivers, and coasts of the Garden of England.... The letterpress, too, has a distinctive charm. The author’s style is clear and limpid, and he handles his facts with so much of the master craftsman that his story never ceases to pulse with human interest.”—Chatham Observer.——————MIDDLESEXPainted byJohn Fulleylove, R.I.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.Containing 20 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE7/6NET(By Post, price 7/11)“An admirable book, brightly written and finely illustrated.”—Standard.“Mr. Fulleylove’s score of pictures are beautiful, and, combined with Mr. Moncrieff’s descriptions, should make many readers of this volume determine to see for themselves the neglected beauties of the nearest of the Home Counties.”—Daily Telegraph.PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK. SOHO SQUARE. LONDON. W.——————SURREYPainted bySutton Palmer.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“Of Mr. Palmer’s pictures it would seem difficult to speak in praise too high; he has chosen his views so admirably and rendered them so beautifully that we find ourselves wishing there were even more of them.... These pictures, too, are reproduced in colours so daintily and so well that we cannot recall a ‘colour-book’ which has given us greater satisfaction.”—Daily Telegraph.——————SUSSEXPainted byWilfrid Ball, R.E.Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“As a literary and artistic work the book is delightful.”—Liverpool Courier.“The whole charm of the county comes into view in Mr. Wilfrid Ball’s artistic pictures, and in the text of the book which they adorn.”—Standard.“The text, by an anonymous writer, is worthy of the pictures, and both are first-rate.”—Daily News.——————WARWICKSHIREPainted byFred Whitehead, R.B.A.Described byClive Holland.Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“Shakespeare’s county has never, to our mind, been more worthily presented, and the book is one which it is a pleasure to possess.”—Guardian.“It remains to commend Mr. Whitehead’s water-colours. They are as clever as they are effective. The pictures range over a great variety of subjects; they give us a little of everything that is most exquisitely characteristic of Warwickshire. There is not one that does not take the eye with pleasure.”—Daily Chronicle.——————WESSEXPainted byWalter Tyndale.Described byClive Holland.Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“The author and painter have given a delightful translation, so to speak, of Thomas Hardy’s imaginative dealings with places and people. Church and castle, sea and river, town and village, peaceful farms and wild moorland, are all identified and described, both by words and pictures, with unfailing charm.”—Evening Standard.——————WORCESTERSHIREPainted byThomas Tyndale[.Described byA. G. Bradley.Containing 24 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE7/6NET(By Post, price 7/11)“The illustrations are beautifully done, and the text accurate and very readable.”—Oxford Magazine.“Mr. Tyndale’s two dozen beautiful sketches will be found delightful to those who know Worcestershire, while they ought to tempt those who do not, to visit it on the earliest opportunity.”—Daily Telegraph.——————YORKSHIREPainted and Described byGordon Home.Containing 70 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.PRICE20/-NET(By Post, price 20/6)“A volume of great and varied interest. Famous houses and ruins, great churches, moorland and sea-coast—the many things that put Yorkshire so high among English shires—are to be found here. It is a most attractive volume.”—Spectator.PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK · SOHO SQUARE · LONDON · W.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND ARTIST ASWINCHESTER.
HAMPSHIRE
Painted byWILFRID BALL, R.E.
Described by Rev.TELFORD VARLEY, M.A.,B.Sc.
CONTAINING 75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
Square Demy 8vo.Cloth.Gilt Top.
PRICE20/-NET. (By Post, price 20s. 6d.)
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
“Mr. Ball’s pictures are delightfully fresh, and recall many pleasant scenes to the reader who knows the county.”—Manchester Guardian.
“Hampshireis essentially a book to keep on a handy shelf in the bookcase, where it can be easily taken down and read with never-failing delight and pleasure.”—Queen.
“The Rev. Telford Varley describes vividly and with great charm the many beauties of this county, while Mr. Wilfrid Ball’s pictures are exquisitely beautiful.”—The Tatler.
“Mr. Varley’sHampshireis a delightful book, entertaining, instructive, and reliable; and withal it is delightfully and copiously illustrated.”—Bournemouth Visitors’ Directory.
OTHER COUNTIES IN THE SAME SERIES
Square Demy 8vo.Cloth.Gilt Top.
ESSEX
Painted byL. Burleigh Bruhl, R.B.A.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“Nothing more delightful could be imagined in the way of illustrated topographical literature than Essex.”—Illustrated London News.
“Altogether it is an admirable book.”—Globe.
——————KENT
Painted byW. Biscombe Gardner.Described byW. Teignmouth Shore.
Containing 73 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“The acme of the reproductive art is reached in the colour facsimiles of the artist’s sketches of the famous cathedrals and castles, the antique houses and quaint villages, the parks, rivers, and coasts of the Garden of England.... The letterpress, too, has a distinctive charm. The author’s style is clear and limpid, and he handles his facts with so much of the master craftsman that his story never ceases to pulse with human interest.”—Chatham Observer.
——————MIDDLESEX
Painted byJohn Fulleylove, R.I.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.
Containing 20 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE7/6NET
(By Post, price 7/11)
“An admirable book, brightly written and finely illustrated.”—Standard.
“Mr. Fulleylove’s score of pictures are beautiful, and, combined with Mr. Moncrieff’s descriptions, should make many readers of this volume determine to see for themselves the neglected beauties of the nearest of the Home Counties.”—Daily Telegraph.
PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK. SOHO SQUARE. LONDON. W.
——————SURREY
Painted bySutton Palmer.Described byA. R. Hope Moncrieff.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“Of Mr. Palmer’s pictures it would seem difficult to speak in praise too high; he has chosen his views so admirably and rendered them so beautifully that we find ourselves wishing there were even more of them.... These pictures, too, are reproduced in colours so daintily and so well that we cannot recall a ‘colour-book’ which has given us greater satisfaction.”—Daily Telegraph.
——————SUSSEX
Painted byWilfrid Ball, R.E.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“As a literary and artistic work the book is delightful.”—Liverpool Courier.
“The whole charm of the county comes into view in Mr. Wilfrid Ball’s artistic pictures, and in the text of the book which they adorn.”—Standard.
“The text, by an anonymous writer, is worthy of the pictures, and both are first-rate.”—Daily News.
——————WARWICKSHIRE
Painted byFred Whitehead, R.B.A.Described byClive Holland.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“Shakespeare’s county has never, to our mind, been more worthily presented, and the book is one which it is a pleasure to possess.”—Guardian.
“It remains to commend Mr. Whitehead’s water-colours. They are as clever as they are effective. The pictures range over a great variety of subjects; they give us a little of everything that is most exquisitely characteristic of Warwickshire. There is not one that does not take the eye with pleasure.”—Daily Chronicle.
——————WESSEX
Painted byWalter Tyndale.Described byClive Holland.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“The author and painter have given a delightful translation, so to speak, of Thomas Hardy’s imaginative dealings with places and people. Church and castle, sea and river, town and village, peaceful farms and wild moorland, are all identified and described, both by words and pictures, with unfailing charm.”—Evening Standard.
——————WORCESTERSHIRE
Painted byThomas Tyndale[.Described byA. G. Bradley.
Containing 24 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE7/6NET
(By Post, price 7/11)
“The illustrations are beautifully done, and the text accurate and very readable.”—Oxford Magazine.
“Mr. Tyndale’s two dozen beautiful sketches will be found delightful to those who know Worcestershire, while they ought to tempt those who do not, to visit it on the earliest opportunity.”—Daily Telegraph.
——————YORKSHIRE
Painted and Described byGordon Home.
Containing 70 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE20/-NET
(By Post, price 20/6)
“A volume of great and varied interest. Famous houses and ruins, great churches, moorland and sea-coast—the many things that put Yorkshire so high among English shires—are to be found here. It is a most attractive volume.”—Spectator.
PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK · SOHO SQUARE · LONDON · W.
FOOTNOTES:[1]OrHantachevesle(the spelling is obscure).[2]Knighton’sDe eventibus Angliae.[3]Memoir of Jane Austen, by Austen Leigh, pp. 163 and 164, inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.[4]This and the following extracts are inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.[5]Letter to George and Georgina Keats, September 21. FromLetters of John Keats: Sidney Colvin: p. 310.[6]Letter to G. and G. Keats, September 20.[7]Inserted by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]OrHantachevesle(the spelling is obscure).
[1]OrHantachevesle(the spelling is obscure).
[2]Knighton’sDe eventibus Angliae.
[2]Knighton’sDe eventibus Angliae.
[3]Memoir of Jane Austen, by Austen Leigh, pp. 163 and 164, inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
[3]Memoir of Jane Austen, by Austen Leigh, pp. 163 and 164, inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
[4]This and the following extracts are inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
[4]This and the following extracts are inserted here by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
[5]Letter to George and Georgina Keats, September 21. FromLetters of John Keats: Sidney Colvin: p. 310.
[5]Letter to George and Georgina Keats, September 21. FromLetters of John Keats: Sidney Colvin: p. 310.
[6]Letter to G. and G. Keats, September 20.
[6]Letter to G. and G. Keats, September 20.
[7]Inserted by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.
[7]Inserted by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.