Visions of England

HARDBACK "LIKE NEW COPY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: The Bodley Head. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated paper covered boards, blue and orange titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Matching colour-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £17.99. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges, otherwise no visible faults. Now in protective wrapper. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (black). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos & prints within text throughout. One 8pp. block of colour photos at centre.* Pages: 206 pp. text. xxiv pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: For centuries, Englishness was synonymous with Britishness, informed first by the political dominance of the English monarchs over the British Isles ? reaching its apogee in the rule of Eliizabeth I ? and later by the island?s imperial might and expansion. But alongside that tradition, reaching back to mediaeval times, there has also been a vision of England as the rural arcadia celebrated by painters and poets. While the mythology of empire lingers on in the national psyche, Roy Strong argues that it is the rural tradition ? combining aestheticism, pastoralism and patriotism ? that offers an answer to the present crisis in English identity.* A FINE (AS NEW) copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Fine dust jacket now in clear un-attached protective wrapper.*