[English History Collection] – Tanner, Heather / Tanner, Robin (illustrations).

Wiltshire Village.

London, Impact Books, 1987. 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 180 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes the following chapters: The Village / The Crafts of the Village / The Village Year / Village People.

″First published in 1939, this book is unique, village crafts, village customs and village characters are all recorded here in prose of great beauty, you will read of the thatcher, and his twisted hazel ‘spicks’,of the way hayricks are thatched and decorated, of the gaps in the walls ‘squeeze belly’ so made so that a man can get through etc. ″ (Amazon)

• Keywords: Country Life · English History Collection · Etching · History of England · Library & Collection Building · Rural life · Village · Wiltshire
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780245544163
• Inventory Number: 72699AB