A Calendar of Consolation.

Woolf (Leonard, Editor)

A Calendar of Consolation.

A Comforting Thought for Every Day of the Year.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 101, crown 8vo, original grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge spotted, gift inscription to flyleaf (see below), dustjacket with two large chips, slightly nicked and creased otherwise, good

Publication Details: The Hogarth Press, 1967

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'Barbara, with much love from Roger. Christmas 1967'. These being Bloomsbury Group members, artist Barbara Bagenal and publisher and translator Roger Senhouse (his hand altogether distinctive) - both of whom close to Lytton Strachey (in Senhouse's case romantically, whilst Bagenal was a friend of Carrington from the Slade).Laid in is a postcard to Bagenal from Leonard Woolf (unsigned but with his heading at Monk's House); she had evidently written to her old friend to say that, 1968 being a leap year, she was lacking the promised 'comfort' for February 29th - Woolf, ...moreInscribed on the flyleaf: 'Barbara, with much love from Roger. Christmas 1967'. These being Bloomsbury Group members, artist Barbara Bagenal and publisher and translator Roger Senhouse (his hand altogether distinctive) - both of whom close to Lytton Strachey (in Senhouse's case romantically, whilst Bagenal was a friend of Carrington from the Slade).Laid in is a postcard to Bagenal from Leonard Woolf (unsigned but with his heading at Monk's House); she had evidently written to her old friend to say that, 1968 being a leap year, she was lacking the promised 'comfort' for February 29th - Woolf, in his typed message, provides three quotations, respectively one from Schiller and two from Wilde (the first two of which concern stupidity, the last death), adding a note about the care of cyclamen at foot. HIDE

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