An essay by Orwell on the post-war English populace. Commissioned by W.J. Turner for the Britain in Pictures series, Orwell described the work as “a piece of propaganda for the British Council”.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.
A very good copy overall, partial offsetting to endpapers as usual, dust jacket somewhat browned and edge worn, short closed tear to front turn-in fold.
Fenwick A.11a.
