Wood-engraving: 2

Leighton, Clare

Studio

Four Hedges

In 1930 Clare Leighton bought a plot of land on a sloping site in the Chilterns. Here, she and Noel Brailsford built a house and created a garden from the "rough meadowland". This book tells of a year in the life of that garden. The author portrays the seasonal changes, from the unfurling of the iris stylosa in the dead of winter, to the warmth of June when the garden belongs to the birds. The text is illustrated with Clare's own wood engravings.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

From the front-inside dustcover:\n“In the early 1930s Clare Leighton began work on twelve wood engravings portraying traditional farming practices. England was in the grip of the Great Depression and with increased mechanisation, life on the land was changing.\nClare Leighton was already well established as a powerful and innovative engraver, but this time she was persuaded to write a text to complement her prints. This proved a watershed and no other book involved her so intensely. She engraved, wrote and designed the book, producing stunning chapter openers and tail pieces. The result was this unusual and immensely successful record of the toil and triumphs of farm labourers before the demands of the Second World War were to change the face of rural Britain.\nThe Farmer’s Year was first published in Britain and the USA in November 1933 and by February 1934 had run to three impressions. The book was launched to great critical acclaim. Frank Rutter, Art Critic of The Sunday Times wrote: “The sincerity of her work is as unmistakable as to its excellence.” Eric Gill commented: “…no one in our time has succeeded better in presenting the noble massiveness and breadth of the life on the earth on a scale so grand.”\nThe Farmer’s Year has not been reprinted since 1934, making the present re-issue long overdue. This [1992] edition has a new afterword by Patricia Jaffé.\nLarge Format: 285mm (h) x 363mm (w) x 15mm (b).

THE FARMER'S YEAR

The Sumach Press

Clare Leighton (1899-1989) was a noted artist, illustrator, engraver, and author. Picking cotton, shucking corn, boiling sorghum, and harvesting tobacco are all part of the rich agricultural heritage of the South recalled by Leighton in the vignettes that make up SOUTHERN HARVEST. Originally published in 1942, the work is handsomely illustrated by more than 35 of Leighton's wood engravings .

Southern Harvest

History

Americas

Univ of Georgia Pr

202 pages, from the back cover:When this book first appeared in 1954, the reviewers and critics were unanimous in their praise. Their words can only speak for themselves:The total effect is one of littleness against an immensity of sea and sky; of a low, timeworn land, marvelously subtle and seasonally responsive in coloring. Where Land Meets Sea is a tone poem, a hymn of praise. - The New York Times.

Where Land Meets Sea: The Enduring Cape Cod (Nonpareil Book, 32)

David R Godine Pub

This book tells the story of the coming of Christianity to the English-speaking world and features the beautiful legend of the flowering hawthorn that blossoms every Christmas. Hugh Ross Williamson relates, with charm and understanding, the story of the flowering hawthorn and Glastonbury. He tells of St. Joseph of Arimathea, who lowered Jesus from the Cross and buried Him; of the Abbey at Glastonbury which became the "second Rome"; of Dunstan and Henry of Blois, who forged a state from antagonistic elements; of the great soldiers, Alfred and Arthur, who saved faith and order from threatening chaos and made themselves legends forever; of St. Patrick, patron Saint of Ireland; of St. David, patron Saint of Wales; of the destruction Glastonbury by the Puritans, its desolation until the present century, and its restoration-all inextricably interwoven with the story of Glastonbury and the flowering hawthorn. Beautifully illustrated with magnificent woodcuts by Clare Leighton, movingly written by Hugh Ross Williamson -historian, novelist, playwright, actor-and expressly designed to complement the story, this attractive volume will prove the ideal gift. Includes an "afterword" about the author, the illustrator and their book. Gold embossed hardcover, 60 lb. cream paper, smyth-sewn, 104 handsome pages.

The Flowering Hawthorn

Williamson, Hugh Ross

Hugh Ross Williamson

Neumann Press

Phrases and images fill you with delight This is the most honest writing I’ve ever read’ Carol Klein.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Little Toller Books

Sometime -- Never

The Macmillan Co.

Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology

Arts & Photography

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

The Wood Engravings of Clare Leighton

Jaffe, Pat

Crafts & Hobbies

Silent Books

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