Author: Haggard, Lilias Rider (editor), (illustrated by Edward Seago),
Title: I WALKED BY NIGHT - Being the Life & History of the King of Norfolk Poachers,.
Description: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1935, 3rd imp., 182pp, coloured frontis portrait of author by Edward Seago, 12 full page half tone plates and numerous in text line drawings also by Seago, beige buckram covered boards lettered in dark brown at spine, decorated in dark brown upper board, the life, times, loves, hates, deeds and folklore of a Norfolk poacher born about 1860, written anonymously by 'Himself' as told to the editor (identity later acknowledged to be Frederick Rolfe), the classic account of the life of a poacher, cocked, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., light soiling to cloth, edfges dusty and tanned, personal bookplate front pastedown, four line inscr. front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, good,

Keywords: britain england topography east anglia norfolk suffolk ditchingham bungay countryside rural wildlife nature poacher poaching illustrator seago


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