Fine prize bindings, 19th century by Wells of Winchester - five volumes, comprising: 1. Ball (Sir Robert Stawell), The Story of the Heavens, New and Revised ed., pub. Cassell & Company, 1893, 18 colour plates and 90 engravings, binding in full red calf with gilt lined borders and gilt crest of Winchester College, spine in six compartments with gilt decoration, black morocco labels, aem, marbled end papers, pastedown prize certificate dated 1894 to Charles Pelham Rowley (1877-1916) to ffep, 8vo (wear to extremities, spine a little faded, page 215-218 loose); 2. Guillemin (Amédée), The Heavens. An Illustrated Handbook of Popular Astronomy, 9th ed., pub. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883, similar binding with pastedown prize certificate to ffep to Charles Pelham Rowley dated 1891, 8vo. (slight wear to extremities, spine a little faded, occasional spotting); 3. Jamin (M.), Cours de Physique de L'Ecole Polytechnique, 4th ed., pub. Paris 1887, binding in full red morocco gilt, with lined borders and gilt crest for Selbourne College, spine in six compartments, aeg, marbled end papers, pastedown prize certificate to ffep to Charles Pelham Rowley dated 1894, 8vo; 4. Atkinson (E.), Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied...., 13th ed., pub. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890, binding in full green morocco gilt, with lined borders and gilt crest for Selbourne College, spine in six compartments (faded), aeg, marbled end papers, pastedown prize certificate to ffep to Charles Pelham Rowley dated 1893, 8vo; 5. Conybeare (The Rev. W. J.) and Howson (The Very Rev. J. S.), The Life and Epistles of St Paul, New Ed., pub. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, binding in full maroon morocco gilt, with lined borders and gilt crest for Winchester College, spine in six compartments, aeg, marbled end papers, pastedown prize certificate to ffep to Charles Pelham Rowley dated 1890, 12mo. * Charles Pelham Rowley was the elder son of Admiral Charles John Rowley of Botley, Hampshire and Alice, daughter of George Carey Elwes of All Souls, Oxford. He entered the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900 and served in India for 12 years, later moving to Tynemouth, where he trained detachments of the New Army. He was sent to France in early 1915 and served at the Second Battle of Ypres, acting for 11 months as Adjutant to the 13th Brigade, R.G.A. He returned to assist with training of heavy artillery in Winchester, but was tragically killed during his preparation for a return to the front in October 1916, whilst on home leave at Holmesland, Botley. He was tending to the broken branches on an elm tree which had been damaged in a gale and one of the branches fell, killing him instantly.