Hardback. Yellow board binding with red title and calves image.

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    A fantastic children’s book on early 19th century farming. 

One of the best kept secrets in the realms of literature, was, for many years, the true identity of the author known to the world as Herbert Strang. The name ‘Herbert Strang’ was a nomde-plume that hid the identity of two authors who, together, worked in close collaboration to produce some of the finest stories ever penned. George Herbert Ely and Charles James L’Estrange were those wonderful two who, when their partnership began in Glasgow in 1903, concocted the pseudonym that disguised their partnership, being a combination of Ely’s Christian name with a simplification of L’Estrange’s surname. Both were born in London – George Herbert Ely in 1866 at St. Georges, Hanover Square, the son of James Ely, grocer and provisioner – Charles James L’Estrange at Kennington, South London in 1867. It is not known if, during their formative years, the two boys ever met, or to which schools they attended. However, though there is no record of the schoolboy interests of L’Estrange, quite a considerable amount is known regarding those of Ely.