A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Very Good -. Item #14656
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First Edition with publisher's advertisements in rear dated 50,000-9/98 at bottom of p. 32. Thick octavo; publisher's decorative blue gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; xx,489,[1],32pp.; 36 leaves of brown monochrome plates. Boards a bit scuffed and corners bumped, textblock recased in binding, spine a bit cocked with a faint crease, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, preliminaries foxed, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper verso, else a Good to Very Good, still quite presentable copy overall.
Brick-like account of a the life of the rural English farmer during the year of 1898.
[Scott 32; Whatmore NF2].
Price: $65.00