Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

Author(s): Evans, George Ewart

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Very Good
Edition:	1st Thus
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Full Circle Editions
Publication Year:	2010
ISBN:	9780956186928
Book ID:	004773
Catalogue(s):	Local Interest and History - East of England ◇ Agriculture, Farming and Land Use

270pp, 60 illustrations by David Gentleman, complete with fold out map at rear showing the area of Blaxhall and Little Glemham in Suffolk. Colour illustrated boards (boards clean and crisp). Illustrated endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). A deluxe edition of this classic work, published to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth, it includes 60 beautiful new drawings in pencil, pen and wash and watercolours all by his son-in-law, David Gentleman, which capture the landscape and character of contemporary Blaxhall. Evans, a Welsh writer, arrived in the remote, rural village of Blaxhall in 1948 and soon began talking to the local people and recording their recollections of the area, becoming a pioneering oral historian. A beautiful edition of a beautiful work. Gift quality copy. 8vo.

Keywords:

blaxhall. suffolk village life country writing local history english countryside village life village history