[Offprint:] 'Agriculture and Rural Life' from Johnson's England.

[Offprint:] 'Agriculture and Rural Life' from Johnson's England.

Publication details: [Oxford: Clarendon Press,][1933,]

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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: With the author's compliments, Jan. 1934[?]'Orwin's consideration of Samuel Johnson's relation to the rural experience of his period, in spite of him being, as the opening sentence encapsulates, a 'townsman both by birth and by inclination', was published as the tenth chapter of the book Johnson's England, published by the Clarendon Press in 1933. Orwin was the director of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute at Oxford

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2 monochrome plates, a couple of very faint spots at head of these, Bibliography page at rear with a rusted paperclip-mark, pp. 261-299, crown 8vo, quarter tan cloth and buff boards printed to front, a few marks, free endpapers browned, a couple of later related clippings laid in, good

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