Portraits in Miniature and other Essays.

Strachey (Lytton)

Portraits in Miniature and other Essays.

Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, pp. [viii], 218, crown 8vo, original blue-grey cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with slight lean to spine, top edge grey, and slightly dusty, other edges faintly spotted with tail edge roughtrimmed, the flyleaf with the ownership inscription of Saxon Sydney-Turner (converted to an ex dono inscription for Barbara Bagenal, see below), dustjacket slightly browned and chipped with the book-label of the author (a design by Carrington, rather rubbed) affixed to backstrip panel, very good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1931

Notes: An excellent Bloomsbury association copy, with the signature of Saxon Sydney-Turner incorporated into the ex dono inscription of Barbara Bagenal (dated May 1931). Bagenal (née Hiles) was a friend of Carrington from the Slade, and thereby in Strachey's circle, who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner, David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes.