BETJEMAN, John, & Glynn Boyd Harte.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Metro-Land. First and limited edition, number 58 of 220 copies only signed by Betjeman and Harte. The captions to the colour plates are taken from Betjeman's commentary for Edward Mitzoeff's BBC documentary, first shown in 1973, celebrating suburban life in the area to the north-west of London around the Metropolitan Railway, later the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground.Titled "End of the line", the final illustration shows a natural terminus and Betjeman pondering the green landscape that both confines and lies beyond Metro-Land. It is captioned, "The houses of Metro-land never got as far as Verney Junction. Grass triumphs. And I must say I'm rather glad".

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