Mary Russell Mitford OUR VILLAGE Folio Society
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Mary Russell Mitford OUR VILLAGE Folio Society
Folio edition, second printing hardback in slipcase of OUR VILLAGE, by Mary Russell Mitford. Introduction by Ronald Blythe. Wood-engravings by Joan Hassall and published by The Folio Society Ltd., London, in 1998.The book is in near fine condition (Three-quarter bound in blue buckram with marbled boards by Ann Muir and gilt lettering on green label on spine, dark green top page ends and in a dark green slipcase). The slipcase is in near fine condition with slight fading around the opening on one side. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
The early nineteenth century classic account of life in a small Berkshire village.
Mary Russell Mitford (1787 1855), was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived. Mitford was an especially prolific and successful writer in a range of genres, from poetry to drama as well as the prose for which she has been best known.
Her inimitable series of country sketches, drawn from her own experiences at Three Mile Cross, entitled 'Our Village,' began to appear in 1819 in the 'Lady's Magazine,' a little-known periodical. The sketches had enormous success and were collected in five volumes, published respectively every other year from 1824 to 1832. Editions of the whole first appeared in 1843.
This Folio edition is a selection from the five-volume edition. The illustrations first produced for an Harrap edition of 1947. Introduction by Ronald Blythe who gives a short biography of Mitford, as well as explaining the social and historical context of the personal observations.
Chapters include: Our Village; Hannah; Frost and Thaw; A Great Farm-House; Lucy; The First Primrose; Violeting; The Talking Lady; The Cowslip Ball; A Country Cricket Match; Tom Cordery; The Copse; The Old Gypsy; The Young Gypsy; A Christmas Party; The Two Valentines; A Country Apothecary; Wheat-Hoeing; The Chalk-Pit; Our Maying; The Bird-Catcher; The Mole-Catcher; Cottage Names; Hannah Bint; Going to the Races; Rosedale; The Two Dolls; The Haymakers; Old Master Green; Farewell to Our Village, etc..
422 pages. Illustrated in monochrome wood-engravings within the text.
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