English Country Houses – Vita Sackville-West – Britain in Pictures

Description

Very good condition for age. Some wear and marks to dust jacket, hardback book very clean. Little foxing, clean pages and illustration. 

England is green throughout; her seas, her woods, her fields all island-green. Green, quiet England. Old, quiet England, disliking war, never having known war at home in the sense that European countries knew war. No devastation, no wrecking of villages and the homes of man, whether castle or cottage. 

The idiosyncratic Britain in Pictures series aimed to boost morale and define national identity during WWII. Published between 1941 and 1949, the series comprises 132 titles, many authored by leading literary, artistic and cultural figures.