The English People.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Commissioned by the publisher at the suggestion of the Ministry of Information, with illustrations by many of the great illustrators of the day, from Ardizzone, John Minton, Henry Moore, L.S. Lowry and others, Orwell’s idea of what it is to be English. An excellent copy, partial offsetting to endpapers as usual, neat ex-libris and early ownership inscription to front endpapers, contents otherwise clean, only minor wear to extremities of jacket.

• Year: 1947

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