Author: Heath, George Francis
Title: The English Peasantry
Description: Frederick Warne, 1874, 1st edition. Cloth, G. xii+271pp+4pp publishers adverts, old library label to upper board, gilt design on upper board showing a peasant outside his house, b/w frontis, spine near detached & text block comming away from boards, in need of a reback. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Important & uncommon work in which Heath travels around the English countryside and studing the life of the farm workers & labourers. he calls for a reform in the system where tennants work in near feudal conditions.

Keywords: history, social history, sociology, agriculture, farming