Euphrosyne.

(Bloomsbury Group.) [WOOLF (Leonard), Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner (Contributors)]

Euphrosyne.

A Collection of Verse.

Description: FIRST EDITION, light spotting, crease to top corner of title-page, title-page with ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (see below), with her note about having bought in Cambridge in March 1924, pp. 90, 8vo, original grey wrappers, the front wrapper off, the backstrip lacking (a gnarled portion of it laid in), poor condition

Publication Details: Cambridge: Elijah Johnson, 1905

Notes: A scarce volume of undergraduate verse, its principal contributors being the Trinity College friends Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Saxon Sydney-Turner; considered to be 'the first book of Bloomsbury' (Rosenbaum, p. 61ff) - or part of the prehistory of the group, notable as the only volume in which its members collaborated on an anthology of their own work, though all of the verse is contributed anonymously. This was the copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who had long relationships with Clive Bell and Saxon Sydney-Turner, two of ...moreA scarce volume of undergraduate verse, its principal contributors being the Trinity College friends Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Saxon Sydney-Turner; considered to be 'the first book of Bloomsbury' (Rosenbaum, p. 61ff) - or part of the prehistory of the group, notable as the only volume in which its members collaborated on an anthology of their own work, though all of the verse is contributed anonymously. This was the copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who had long relationships with Clive Bell and Saxon Sydney-Turner, two of the contributors that she identifies on the Contents pages: she attributes four of the poems to Leonard Woolf, thirteen to Clive Bell, three to Strachey, sixteen to Sydney-Turner, leaving seven without attribution - these believed to be the work of Walter Lamb. Of the contributors, only Clive Bell continued to publish as a poet into maturity. HIDE

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