Chiltern Country by H. J. Massingham (Batsford, 1st edition 1940) dustwrapper by Brian Cook
Chiltern Country
by H. J. Massingham, illustrated by Thomas Hennell
B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1st edition Autumn 1940
A volume in Batsford’s ‘The Face of Britain’ series.
Lovely dustwrapper art by Brian Cook.
Hardback – publisher’s orange cloth with titles to spine and front board, top edge of page-block stained orange, in a dustwrapper. pp viii, 120, including b/w line drawings plus colour frontispeice and b/w plates, map endpapers. 8.5 x 5.75 inches approx. (217mm x 144mm).
Light wear and rubbing to dustwrapper; sunned/faded to spine; light foxing. Cloth clean and bright. Light foxing and offsetting to endpapers; foxing to edges of page-block; pages with occasional foxing but generally clean throughout.
Overall, sunning to dustwrapper spine but otherwise a particularly clean, fresh copy – quite lovely.
[SOLD]
ref. The Britain of Brian Cook by Brian Cook Batsford (B. T. Batsford, 1987)