ENGLISH PICNICS

by Battiscombe, Georgina

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Book desription: Country Book Club, London, 1951.. 212 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w plates. "A picnic is the Englishman's grand gesture, his final defiance flung in the face of fate. With sly humour the (author) pokes fun at the recklessness of our countrymen who, between Ap. ril and October, regularly plan to leave their comfortable homes in order to eat out of doors amidst rain and wind, or at best, wasps and midges." Contents: What is a Picnic?; Medieval Picnics; Tudor and Stuart Picnics; Eighteenth Century and R. e g e ncy Picnics; Victoriana; The Chosen Guests; The Poets' Picnic; Picnics in Fiction; The Nursery Goes Picnicking; Epilogue; Index. Light browning to top edge of textblock, two tiny shallow dints to top edge of boards, very light edge wear. Dus. t ja ck et is heavily browned on spine, light browning at some edges, very small ships at top/bottom of flap-folds and bottom of spine, 1/4" piece missing from top of spine, light edge wrinkling, one small edge tear, three small closed tears on fron. t hin ge. Very Good/Good.

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