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The seasons & the farmer ; a book for children / written by F. Fraser Darling and illustrated with drawings by C.F. Tunnicliffe

Sir Frank Fraser Darling

RA Collection: Book

Record number

17/377

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939

Physical Description

vii, 71, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

General Note

50 woodcuts by Tunnicliffe and four plates, reproductions of photographs, tipped in.

Contents

The land, the plants and the animals -- Spring: The ploughman and the sower; the shepherd and his sheep; the awakening pastures; the poultry yard -- Summer: The growing crops; the hayfields and the mower; the harvest and the reaper; the blacksmith’s shop -- Autumn: The cleared stubbles; Garnering the root crops; the falling leaf; the stackyard -- Winter: Threshing day; the cattle in the byre; work in the field and hedgerow -- The produce and the people

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