English Journey

Published in 1934, this travel book records Priestley's autumn 1933 tour from Southampton through the West Country, the Midlands, the industrial North, and the northeast coast. He describes docks, factories, new arterial roads, decaying mill towns, and the contrast between prosperous southern suburbs and unemployed districts. Encounters with workers, managers, and local officials sit beside notes on theatres, pubs, and civic buildings. The book is reportage rather than guidebook: an account of what England looked and felt like in the slump, written as a sequence of regional chapters ending in a return south.

Bound in black buckram with "1933" repeated in blind and three B&W photographs printed on the front board. White endleaves with a B&W photograph. Black slipcase with a wrap-around B&W photograph (2001 reprint had a plain black slipcase).