The local Squire, Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine, is bitterly opposed to progress and rules his tenant farmers with a firm if benevolent hand. First Printing 320 pages Set in a rural communuty at the end of the eighteenth century. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to blue spine panel. shadows to inside covers and endpapers, slight foxing to edges of reading. Very Good with no dust jacket Missing DJ, light sunning to spine tape. Also he has some very unusual friends, notably the strange Mr Mundford who never seems to grow any older and whose name is linked with the terrible Hell… But the new Squire decides to enclose the land for his own benefit depriving many locals of their livelihoods. When Sir Charles dies in a riding accident many see this as a chance for change as his only son Richard returns to England from India to inherit the title, lands and money.

320 pages Set in a rural communuty at the end of the eighteenth century. Missing DJ, light sunning to spine with some foxing to boards, ink name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block.

Afternoon of an Autocrat by Norah Lofts