The English People.

£150 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An essay by Orwell on the post-war English populace. Commissioned by W.J. Turner for the Britain in Pictures series, Orwell described the work as “a piece of propaganda for the British Council”. Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8. A very good copy overall, partial offsetting to endpapers as usual, dust jacket somewhat browned and edge worn, short closed tear to front turn-in fold. Fenwick A.11a.

• Year: 1947

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