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Evans, George Ewart.
Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay.
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1956
Stock Code: 15311
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 250. Illustrated with reproductions of wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, photographic plates and one fold out map. Publisher’s lime green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge stained yellow, in the original unclipped illustrated dust-jacket. Sunning and toning to spine and lower panel of jacket; chips and nicks to extremities. Some offsetting to end-papers. Near-fine in very good jacket. A vivid rural swan-song captured by folklorist George Ewart Evans in 1950s East Anglia, just prior to the mechanisation of farming. This compilation of oral histories, collected by Evans in the remote village of Blaxhall Suffolk, cover dialect, agricultural and domestic day to day life, folklore and customs and cemented his reputation as one of the great folklorists of the twentieth century. £125.00