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Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VOLUME I ONLY OF 2. viii, 453pp, pages clean and crisp, green cloth, gilt spine lettering on black, price-clipped dust jacket, minimal wear. George Sturt (18 June 1863-4 February 1927), who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne, was an English writer on rural crafts and affairs. He wrote numerous books and articles under the name George Bourne, including a novel - his first published book - A Year's Exile (1898), which dealt with country life among the people of Surrey. Many of Sturt's later books, essays, and articles concerned the dealings of country people and their life and often included details of the practices and tools of the wheelwright and farmer. Among such books were The Bettesworth Book (1901), Change in the Village (1912), Lucy Bettesworth (1913), A Farmer's Life, with a Memoir of the Farmer's Sister (1922), and The Wheelwright's Shop (1923), often considered to be his best book. Sturt also wrote a book on aesthetics called The Ascending Effort (1910). Size: 8vo. Rural Craft.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes. Volume one i-viii, 453 pp, Volume two, i-v, pages 455 - 915. Slight tear to the dust wrapper of Volume one, some light spotting to the edges but a very good to near fine set in dust wrappers.