A Song for Every Season : A Hundred Yeats of a Sussex Farming Family

288pp, plus section of black and white plate illustrations and, towards the end, some musical scores with lyrics (the songs of the title). Cream endpapers. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles (boards a little worn, very gently bruised at spine ends). Narrow and mild strip tanning on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped on lower edge, chapped along upper edge with two short nicks front and back). 8vo. In the lap of the Sussex Downs, facing the sea, lies the village of Rottingham, where the Copper family have worked on the land since time immemorial. A Song for Every Season traces back through three generations, charting the peaceful, unhurried rhythm of rural life.