Price: £20
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1992
Stock Number: 75654
(Your basket is currently empty)A modest collection of weather proverbs.
Description: printed in Palatino type with reproductions of five wood-engravings by Bewick printed in chestnut-brown, and punctuated with a monotype ornament by Peter J. Burnhill, pp. 16, narrow 8vo, publisher's textured scarlet wrappers, title printed on cover, finePublication Details: Moreton-in-Marsh: Kenneth Hardacre, 1992
Notes: The proverbs 'almost all [of which] have been in oral circulation, mainly among farmers and fishermen, from the very earliest times' are arranged in four seasons and a catch-all 'All Seasons', each part headed by a Bewick illustration.
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