Portrait of Elmbury [with] Brensham Village [with] The Blue Field
( Clifford and Rosemary ELLIS, illus. ) MOORE, John
[The Brensham trilogy complete].
THE BRENSHAM TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Collins, 1945-46-48
Stock code: 49753
Price: £200.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, second volume with frontispiece by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis; cloth (brown/brown/terracotta respectively), gilt backs, tops a little dusty else a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper.
The set comprises 'Portrait of Elmbury' (1945), 'Brensham Village' (1946) and 'The Blue Field' (1948). First volume in First State dustwrapper. Bright set of one of the most elegaic and best-loved accounts of the English countryside of the twentieth century. Based loosely on Tewkesbury and Bredon (Gloucestershire and Wiltshire respectively), the three novels together paint an unforgettable image of a rural England long passed away. Writing only twenty years or so after Hardy's death, Moore rekindles the spirit: 'the finest countryside writer of his generation' (Compton Mackenzie, to whom the second volume is dedicated). COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS ARE SCARCE.