Perfume from Provence
FORTESCUE, Winifred
With Drawings by E. H. Shepard. [Eleventh Impression].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Blackwood, 1939
Stock code: 21733
Price: £24.00
8vo., Eleventh Impression, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter creased, frayed and chipped at edges.
The first volume of Fortescue's delightful sequence of autobiographical memoirs. In the early 1930s, Winifred Fortescue and her husband Sir John Fortescue left England to settle in Provence, in a small house amid olive groves, on the border of Grasse. Almost at once they were bewitched, by the scenery, by their garden - an incredible terraced landscape of vines, wild flowers, roses and lavender - and above all by the charming, infuriating, warm-hearted and wily Provençals. On publication, Perfume From Provence became an instant best-seller and Lady Fortescue's enchanting books proved equally popular to a new generation when they were revived in the 1990s. Compulsive reading for anyone who has ever loved France, and most especially Provence.