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First Edition. With 75 exquisite colourplates reproduced from paintings by Wilfred Ball. Large, thick 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt within gilt rules surrounding the borders and with a lovely arrangement of pink roses and leaves in the central panel, the spine gilt lettered with matching flower pattern below. xi, 316 pp, folding map,4 ads. A very fresh and attractive copy in its elaborately decorated cloth binding, the textblock tight and clean and bright, the colorful plates fresh and clean, the cloth unfaded and clean with only the lightest of age to the tips or extremities. FIRST EDITION AND A CHARMING A. & C. BLACK ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATION. This book conjures up English country life and architecture perfectly. Wilfred Ball was one of the most respected Edwardian painters of landscape and marine subjects, especially in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Norfolk, Sussex, Wiltshire, and Hampshire. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy. This, and another A. & C. Black title called SUSSEX, were the only two books he illustrated. They are both part of Black's "20 Shilling" series, the publisher's most lavish.