Winchester, Painted by Wilfrid BallVarley, Telford
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Winchester, Painted by Wilfrid Ball
Varley, Telford
Winchester (England) -- Description and travel; Winchester (England) -- History; Winchester (England) -- Pictorial works
“The text, by an anonymous writer, is worthy of the pictures, and both
are first-rate.”--_Daily News._
WARWICKSHIRE
Painted by FRED WHITEHEAD, R.B.A.
Described by CLIVE HOLLAND.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour.
PRICE =20/-= 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 by WALTER TYNDALE.
Described by CLIVE HOLLAND.
Containing 75 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE =20/-= NET
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“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 by THOMAS TYNDALE[.
Described by A. G. BRADLEY.
Containing 24 Full-page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE =7/6= NET
(_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 by GORDON HOME.
Containing 70 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour and a Sketch-Map.
PRICE =20/-= 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] Or _Hantachevesle_ (the spelling is obscure).
[2] Knighton’s _De 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. From _Letters 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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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