Author: ROUD, STEVE.
Title: The English Year: A month-by-month guide to the nation's customs and festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxviii, 467; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece and title page, text illustrated with numerous coloured photographs and maps, Easter dates, sources, bibliography, index, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; penguin Books; 2006. The book gives and illustrated guide, month by month, day by day, through all the festivities of English life - from national celebrations to the more regional customs such as duck-racing in Oxfordshire or the building of the Whitby Penny Hedge - explaining how they originated, what they mean and when they occur.
Keywords: england custom culture history
Title: The English Year: A month-by-month guide to the nation's customs and festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxviii, 467; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece and title page, text illustrated with numerous coloured photographs and maps, Easter dates, sources, bibliography, index, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; penguin Books; 2006. The book gives and illustrated guide, month by month, day by day, through all the festivities of English life - from national celebrations to the more regional customs such as duck-racing in Oxfordshire or the building of the Whitby Penny Hedge - explaining how they originated, what they mean and when they occur.
Keywords: england custom culture history
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114922
- Book number: 114922