Environmental writing from the library of a wildlife artist
THOMAS, Edward Cloud Castle and other papers. Duckworth & Co. 1922.
8vo. Original cloth and scarce dustwrapper; pp. viii + 197; foxing to edges, otherwise very good. Provenance: with previous owner's inscription to endpaper. This copy was bought by the previous owner from the collection of Eileen Soper, the celebrated children's book illustrator, author and wildlife artist.
First edition. With a foreward by W.H. Hudson. This is a posthumous collection of prose pieces by Thomas which encompasses the great nature writer's thoughts on rural life, landscape, books and myth. The complex relationship between humanity and environment is encapsulated in the characters who people these essays,
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