Augustus John. A Biography.

(John.) HOLROYD (Michael)

Augustus John. A Biography.

Volume 1: The Years of Innocence; Volume 2: The Years of Experience [Complete in 2 vols.]

Description: FIRST EDITIONS, frontispieces and various plates, pp. xiii, [2], 415; xiii, [4], 263, 8vo, original brown cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, top edges maroon and dusty, each volume with the contemporary ownership inscription of artist Barbara Bagenal to flyleaves and half-titles, dustjackets, that to first volume backed with cloth, slightly tatty and lightly soiled overall, good

Publication Details: Heinemann, 1974- 1975

Notes: The copies of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade - alongside whom she is mentioned on p. 60 of the second volume, though not included in the Index; she is also mentioned by the author in his Acknowledgements for this volume.

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