Clare Leighton Boeken

This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s.

A calendar of English husbandry, first published in 1933, with each month described and with wood engravings by the author, the famous artist and writer Clare Leighton, who also wrote Four Hedges.

A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, including beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist's life and work, reflecting Leighton's lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land.