Price: £200
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1913]
Stock Number: 75553
(Your basket is currently empty)[A selection from the unpublished writings and drawings [...] together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work.] [Collins' Wide-World Library series.]
Description: frontispiece and numerous plates, pp. 271 [1], foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, series design stamped in blind to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with a touch of wear at tips, slight lean to spine, a few marks to edges of cloth,Publication Details: Collins' Clear-Type Press, n.d. [circa 1913]
Notes: With a gift inscription to the flyleaf, linking this copy to the Bloomsbury Group: 'Saxon, from Dad, Christmas Day 1913'. The recipient was Saxon Sydney-Turner, a civil servant who had been a Cambridge Apostle, and there a friend of Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard Woolf. Beneath the gift inscription is the later ownership inscription of Michael Bagenal, the son of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) - she was a friend of Carrington from the Slade, with whom Sydney-Turner had a long relationship.This volume, originally published in 1899, was edited by Dodgson's nephew, who was also hi...more
Bibliography: (Williams et al.[Crutch] 287)
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