Orlando.

Woolf (Virginia)

Orlando.

A Biography.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece and 7 plates, some of the plates with a tiny waterstain at head, some light foxing adjacent to plates, pp. 209, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with a tiny nick at head, lean to spine, small waterstain to top edge, free endpapers browned, the flyleaf with the contemporary ex dono inscription of Barbara Bagenal (see below), good

Publication Details: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1928

Notes: A Bloomsbury Group association copy, being the copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, David Garnett, and John Maynard Keynes - here with her ex dono inscription recording it as the gift of 'SST' (i.e., Saxon Sydney-Turner), whose 'wide and peculiar erudition' puts him towards the head of the author's extensive list of Acknowledgements.

Bibliography: (Woolmer 185: Kirkpatrick A11b)

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