On Human Finery.

Bell (Quentin)

On Human Finery.

Description: FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece and three colour plates, 12 further monochrome plates, pp. 134, 8vo, original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, cloth faintly spotted, top corners slightly pushed, top edge pink, other edges toned, faint partial browning to free endpapers, the flyleaf with ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (see below), dustjacket a little tatty with backstrip panel sunned and a few spots, good

Publication Details: The Hogarth Press, 1947

Notes: The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and worked at the Omega Workshops; among her brief relationships (but longer friendships) within the Bloomsbury Group were David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes, but she had more enduring relationships with Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell. This book, by the latter's son, is a work on fashion.