We shall study the class of real
Banach spaces B with the following restricted Hahn-Banach extension property: For
each Banach space C with a dense set of cardinality ≦ some fixed cardinal N, and for
each subspace A of C and bounded linear map T0: A → B, there exists an extension
T : C → B such that ∥T∥ = ∥T0∥. Suprisingly, there exist Banach spaces in this class
which are not isometrically isomorphic to C(X) for a compact Hausdorff
X!