Wild Life in a Southern County

Description:

With an important introduction by the biographer of Hardy, Desmond Hawkins. Charmingly illustrated with scenes of the English countryside with wood engravings by C. F. Tunnicliffe. Comprises of a number of articles first published in the Pall Mall Gazette between May and December 1878. Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), English journalist, prose-poet of nature, novelist of the rural landscape, is one of the major figures in the long tradition of British rural writers: 'No one English writer before had had such a wide knowledge of labourers, farmers, gamekeepers, poachers, of the fields, and woods, and waters, and the sky above them, by day and night … When he wrote these books […] he had no rival, nor have they since been equalled in purity, abundance, and rusticity.' (Thomas, E. (1909), Richard Jefferies: his life and work, p. 320).

This book has been described as an encyclopaedia of ‘country sights and country matters.’ For the modern reader provides an invaluable record of a certain time and place in the English country life.

Miller & Matthews B9.28; B. Morris, Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision (2006), p 136-7

Condition

Vg in d/w (price-clipped). Charmingly illustrated with scenes of the English countryside.