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A very smart first illustrated edition of this important work on folklore from Welsh writer George Ewart Evans, signed by the author and illustrator. Originally published in 1956, this is the first edition with watercolours and drawings from David Gentleman. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven double-page colour scenes, eight black-and-white photographs, numerous in-text images many of which are in colour, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, from a time before mechanization and industrialisation changed the nature of farming. Evans seeks out those who recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer. Written by George Ewart Evans, a Welsh-born schoolteacher, writer and folklorist who became a dedicated collector of oral history and oral tradition in the East Anglian countryside. Evans produced eleven books of collections of these materials. Illustrated by David William Gentleman, an English artist who studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. From the library of Carmen Callil, an Australian publisher who founded Virago Press in 1973, to ""publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population"". Virago publish works by new and neglected female authors, publishing the works by authors such as Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Atwood, and Angela Carter, all with a distinctive green spine synonymous with Virago. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine
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