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Evans, George Ewart.
Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay.
Publisher: Ploughmans Parrot Press. London;
Date of Publication: 1999
Stock Code: 9712
Number 14 in Limited Edition of only 56 ‘Special’ copies (280 standard copies). Tall octavo, pp., 153, [5]. Illustrated with 20 wood engravings by Harry Brockway, Anthony Christmas, David Gentleman, Miriam Macgregor, Howard Phipps, Peter Reddick, and George Tute. Bound in quarter fern green morocco and pale green pictorial boards, with repeating wood engraving by Harry Brockway, and gilt title to spine. With an additional suite of all the engravings, each signed by the artist; in sewn apple green thin card wraps. Housed in a matching pale green pictorial slipcase. Fine in Fine slipcase. Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid rural swan-song captured by folklorist George Ewart Evans in 1950s East Anglia, just prior to the mechanisation of farming which changed rural life forever. This fascinating 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. Numbered “xiv of lvi” to the limitation leaf. £285.00