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Visit to a Farm
This is one of many books published by Thomas Nelson and Sons which reproduced drawings by Blampied from earlier titles. This book used four line drawings and one of the colour plates from the first edition of At the Farm.
First edition, thus
Bibliography code: NEL-35.1
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Series: none
Year: [1935], taken from JISC
Format: 8to
Pages: 8
Binding: Printed card covers with pages sewn to spine; title on front and Nelson at foot with colour drawing of two brown and white cows and an angry cat between; address of publisher on rear cover and a colour drawing of Highland cows.
Size: 282 x 220 mm
Dust jacket: none
Internal illustrations: front endpapers: line drawings from p 18 and p 43 of At the Farm; p 2, full page colour drawing of pigs from At the Farm, facing page 16; rear endpapers: line drawings from p 102 and p 122 of At the Farm
Source of illustrations: At the Farm
Price: unknown
Printing history: not known
Printed by: Printed in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd
Notes: The date is taken from a copy in the British Library. My copy has an inscription dated 'Xmas 1937' and a sticker for 'Saville's Stores, Maritzburg', which is in South Africa.
Cover, not by Blampied (click to enlarge)
Six of the other colour drawings are by Scot Rankin and one by George Morrow. The drawings on the covers are not signed but are probably by Scot Rankin as well. Rankin's illustrations have been taken from a larger book entitled Uncle's Farm (1921) and used again.