HARVESTING THE FIELD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LETTERS FROM 1853 TO THE PRESENT. Selected and edited by James Irvine Robertson.

1991 1st edition. Large 8vo (172 x 241mm). Pp208. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

"This is an anthology of quirks and eccentricities which is intended to shed some light on the attitudes and oddities as well as the achievements of the country dweller, human and otherwise, from the 1850's to the present day. This anthology concerns itself with matters like the incidence of passenger pigeons in Derbyshire, or ostriches swimming in the Mersey, of singing mice, of horses that murder sheep and the Duke of Wellington's breeches."