H. Rider Haggard — Rural Denmark and Its Lessons

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Haggard"s first-edition study of Danish farming and rural reform, illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. In the publisher's original navy cloth binding.First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen plates. Collated, complete.A significant socio-economic study undertaken after his government-commissioned tour of Denmark in 1910, this volume offers Haggard"s detailed investigation into Danish agricultural reforms and the cooperative movement. Covering farming practice, education, landholding, agricultural credit, dairy production, and rural communities. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound. Rubbing and fading to extremities with the odd spot of damp staining, heavier to perimeters of boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities with one small closed tear to head of spine. Offsetting and the odd spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: None Stated. Very Good .