1902 Rural England

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition.

Complete in two volumes.

A lesser known non-fiction work by H. Rider Haggard, in which he looks at individual counties and their farms, countryside, and agricultural style.

Haggard was greatly involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire, and researched this work himself in 1901 and 1902. This exploration provides a fascinating look at the countryside of England at the turn of the century.

Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, thirteen folding maps, and thirty-one plates. Forty pages of adverts to the rear.

Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, ten folding maps, and twenty-three plates. 

Collated, complete.