Price: £2,000
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1923
Stock Number: 74841
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Description: FIRST EDITION, 24 plates, each with a monochrome reproduction of Duncan Grant's work printed on coated paper and with captioned interleaves, pp. xii, + Plates, 4to, original quarter cream cloth, white boards, the upper board with a design by the artist printed in black, backstrip with printed label, a little wear at backstrip ends, the boards browned with wear at corners, a few spots to edges and endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (recording it as the gift of 'J.M.K. [Keynes], see below), goodPublication Details: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1923
Notes: Laid in is an invitation to the opening of an exhibition, 'Design at Work', at Burlington House - addressed to Duncan Grant, and with his original sketch to the verso, in black and blue ink, of a female nude sat under a tree.The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Grant (and David Garnett, et al.), and a member of the Bloomsbury Group - which she entered alongside Carrington, her friend from the Slade School of Art. She assisted the Woolfs with their early printing, and had long relationships with Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell. She is mentioned as being probably the ...more
Bibliography: (Woolmer 31)
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