Author: Clare Leighton
Title: The Farmer's Year : A Calendar of English Husbandry
Description: NY, Longmans, Green and Company, 1933. First. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt-embossed figure on front. Red and white illustrated endpapers; 54 pp. BW plates. A calendar year, each month represented by a bw engravings of an annual event that would occur on a farm during that month. Each plate is full-page, and there are smaller bw figures within the text (also by Leighton) describing each plate and representative farm life. Beautiful plates. In spite of the ink stamps, some are suitable for framing. All can be enjoyed within this amazing book that brings together art and nature. January: lambing; February: lopping; March: threshing; April: sowing; May: sheep shearing; June: haymaking; July: cottage gardens; August: harvesting; September: apple picking; October: cider making; November: ploughing; and December: the Fat Stock Market. VG, with an inked inscription by Claire Leighton in the upper right corner of the half-title. A clean, solid copy .

Keywords: European Artists; Clare Leighton; Farming; English Art ; Leighton, Clare ; ;


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