Letters of... Volumes One & Two [Complete.]

Fry (Roger)

Letters of... Volumes One & Two [Complete.]

Edited, with an Introduction by Denys Sutton.

Description: FIRST EDITIONS, plates and illustrations to the text, pencil note at head of letter on p. 546 (this by Barbara Bagenal, see below), pp. xviii, 366; viii, [1], 367-787, 8vo, original maroon leatherette, backstrips lettered in gilt, top edges dusty and a little spotted, each flyleaf with the contemporary ownership inscription and address-label of Barbara Bagenal (see below), dustjackets with designs by Duncan Grant and Fry respectively, slightly nicked at head of faded backstrip panels, very good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1972

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 with Fry at the Omega Workshops; though not mentioned in the letters, she is cited as the source of the letter to Mrs. Oswald Sickert included in the second volume - at the head of which she has noted the name 'Bessie' (presumably how the recipient was addressed).

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