An Imaged World.

Garnett (Edward)

An Imaged World.

Poems in Prose. With Five Drawings by William Hyde.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 4 plates by Hyde, border designs and other decorations, title-page printed in black and red, one or two spots or handling marks to borders, pp. xii, 120, crown 8vo, original pink cloth, the backstrip and upper board with an elaborate border design and lettering in gilt, a touch of wear at backstrip ends, faint spotting to cloth, a few small marks to upper board, t.e.g. and a little dusty, other edges toned, the flyleaf a cancel, a few small spots to endpapers, good

Publication Details: J.M. Dent, 1894

Notes: The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) - a Bloomsbury Group association, she being a friend of the author's son, David Garnett (as well as of Carrington, from their time together at the Slade).Garnett's first book, uncommon - published in the same year as Conrad's debut, 'Almayer's Folly', which Garnett accepted for publication (his role in Conrad's career constituting 'perhaps his greatest contribution to literature', ODNB).

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