WINCHESTER
Written by Telford Varley
Illustrated by Wilfrid Ball
Published by Adam & Charles Black
in 1910
WINCHESTER
Written by Telford Varley.
Illustrated by Wilfrid Ball.
Stock no. 2137056
1st.
1910.
Hardback.
Good condition.
24 tissue-guarded colour plates. 2000 copies printed. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth, gilt titles and coat of arms to front cover. A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. Covers are heavily marked and faded. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some pages internally. Some plate pages are starting to become detached. A reading copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter I 'Wyngester, That Joly cite'
- Chapter II Early Days
- Chapter III The Roman Occupation
- Chapter IV Saxon Winchester
- Chapter V The Capital of England
- chapter VI Alfred
- Chapter VII Alfre's Death and Sixty Years After
- Chapter VIII Aethelwold, Saint and Bishop
- Chapter IX The Capital of the Danish Empire
- chapter X Norman Winchester
- Chapter XI Later Norman Days
- Chapter XII A Great Bishop Henry of Blois
- Chapter XIII Angevin and Plantagenet
- Chapter XIV Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Winchester
- Chapter XV The Monastic Life
- Chapter XVI The Cathedral
- Chapter XVII The College
- Chapter XVIII Wolvesey - St. Cross - The Castle Hall - The Round Table
- Chapter XIX Winchester in Literature
- INDEX