1936 Garden Rubbish and Other Country Bumps

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated throughout. A humorous guide to British gardening, with extracts which were originally published in Punch magazine. Arranged into sections, or "bumps", on nature, garden rubbish, beyond the unpleasaunce, and the wind-on-the-heath brother. Written by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman, both British humourists who wrote for Punch, and are best known for their 1930 book '1066 and All That', a parody of historical works. Illustrated by Stephen Dowling, a British newspaper comic artist.