The Farmer’s Year by Clare Leighton

In the early 1930s, as the world was gripped by the Great Depression, the artist Clare Leighton began work on a sequence of wood engravings depicting traditional farming in England over the course of a year. Already established as one of the most innovative engravers of her time, Leighton was encouraged to write a series of sketched to illustrate each of the twelve engravings. The result was The Farmer’s Year, published in 1933 in Britain and North America, to great acclaim, running to three impressions by early 1934. This was the first book that Leighton wrote, illustrated and designed and remains her most celebrated work, a unique and beautiful record of the toil and triumphs of farm workers before the Second World War and mechanisation changed the countryside for ever.

Very good copy – previous owners neat inscription