First Edition (first printing).
8vo.
250pp.
Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine.
With a title page decoration, various Thomas Bewick woodcuts, twenty-four captioned photographs and manuscript reproductions, and a multi-panel folding map at the rear.
Some toning to the free endpapers, and a dash of spotting to the fore edge.
A very good copy in very lightly toned and dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with a tiny enclosed snag to the spine panel.
Handsome former owner bookplate laid-in.
The author's first significant work, a classic of rural Suffolk life.