Collis, John Stewart — The Worm Forgives The Plough

Barrie & Jenkins 192, numerous illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. A masterpiece of rural literature. An account of the author's experiences working on the land during the 1940s. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour watercolours and drawings by a distinguished group of twentieth-century British artists and illustrators, including Stanley Badmin, Brian Cook, Rowland Hilder, John Nash, Eric Ravilious, Reynolds Stone, Robin Tanner, C. F. Tunnicliffe. Collectively they represent some of the finest traditions of British landscape, rural and natural-history illustration, several being closely associated with the distinctive visual culture of the inter-war and post-war countryside.. [9780712620604]