Adam Was a Ploughman.

Warren, C. Henry.

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Publisher:Eyre and Spottiswoods Published Date:30th November -0001 Binding:hardcover Condition:Good Notes:**1st Edition** **HARDBACK** No stamps or inscriptions, small mark to ffep; clean condition; Eyre 1947; no dust jacket; Cloth. Condition: good plus. John Aldridge (illustrator). First edition. This very scarce first edition, first impression of C. Henry Warren's illustrated collection of portrayals describing so-called "true country dwellers", First edition, first impression of the work..With numerous monochrome vignette illustrations relating to the British countryside by John Aldridge accompanying the text. John Aldridge was a British artist and an Associate of the Royal Academy who specialised in paintings of the Essex landscape.Very scarce.Adam Was a Ploughmanis a delightful collection of literary portraits depicting "true country dwellers" and their surrounding landscape. The work takes inspiration from the men of rural Essex where the author grew up. In the original publisher's full cloth binding