Telford Varley — Hampshire

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition copy of Telford Varley's fascinating history of the county of Hampshire; with copious beautiful illustrations by Wilfrid Ball throughout. Wilfrid Williams Ball was a prolific Victorian and Edwardian painter, renowned for his watercolors of rural landscapes and marine subjects, especially in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Hampshire. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the text. Collated, complete with seventy five coloured plates (each with a protective tissue guard), and a folding map of Hampshire to the rear of the text. In the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial design to the front board and spines. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear to extremities. Bumping to head of spine resulting in small splits to cloth. Fading to spine, as expected with this colour binding. Age toning to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Wilfrid Ball. Very Good Indeed .