292pp plus central section of plate illustrations. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine (boards strong and clean, just a tad rubbed at corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. In its original dust jacket (a little bumped at edges).
An anthology of some of the finest and most significant writing about the English countryside and country life from writers such as Cobbett through Jefferies, Sturt, Hardy, Flora Thompson to Adrian Bell.