Living National Treasures book by Andrew Ashenden (Country Life Magazine)

This illustrated classic from 1997 celebrates a range of specialist crafts practised all over the country.

From the more familiar butler and book binder to reed harvester, coppicer, duck breeder and Lord's dinner lady, it seeks to capture the atmosphere of Britain away from the fast pace of urban life. This book tells the story of crafts that have been laboriously learned and are painstakingly practised, and some of these cases record the last few practitioners of certain crafts in the late 1990s.

New in original packaging.

Hardcover, 144 pages, published by Pavilion,1997.