Yalbury Wood and the Keeper's House

R. Knight

1878

Wood engraving

14 cm high by 10 cm wide

Ninth illustration for Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, facing page 153.

Passage illustrated: “The game-keeper, Geoffrey Day, lived in the depths of Yalbury Wood; but the wood was intersected by a lane at a place not far from the house, and some trees had of late years been felled, to give the solitary cottager a glimpse of the occasional passer-by. [Part the Second, "Spring," Chapter 6, "Yalbury Wood," p. 154-155]

See commentary below.

Photograph, caption, and commentary by Philip V. Allingham

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