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201 WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday. With woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1921 ONLY LIFETIME COLLECTION OF HER SHORT STORIES First edition, one of 1,000 copies of this early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work “was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started the Hogarth Press” (Kirkpatrick). Woolf was concerned about the quality of Monday or Tuesday and what its critical reception would be,
and wrote in her diary on 6 March 1921 that “Nessa approves of Monday or Tuesday – mercifully; & thus somewhat redeems it in my eyes”. Octavo. Original brown quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, black and white woodcut to front cover designed by Vanessa Bell. No jacket issued. With 4 full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, and 1 p. of publisher’s advertisements at end. New York bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Slight wear to board edges and tips, covers a little toned and rubbed, offsetting from woodcuts and at endpapers, occasional light pencil underlinings to text; a very good copy. ¶ Kirkpatrick A5; Woolmer 17. £2,000 [150308] 202 WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York & London: The Fountain Press; The Hogarth Press, 1929 WOOLF’S FEMINIST LITERARY MANIFESTO, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Signed limited edition, scarce Hogarth Press issue, number 277 of 492 copies signed by the author in her customary purple ink on the half-title. This edition was published in the US on 21 October 1929 and in the UK on 24 October 1929, simultaneously with the Hogarth Press trade edition. A Room of One’s Own is Woolf’s feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses the history of women as writers and the challenges they have faced, notes the effects of patriarchal literary culture on
female characters, and makes the case that women must carve out both physical and psychological space for themselves in order to become part of the literary establishment. The work is based on two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown leatherette folding case. Spine faded, wear to ends and tips, light toning to contents, else bright and clean. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Kirkpatrick A12a; Woolmer 215A. £6,500 [153492] 203 WORDSWORTH, William. The Poetical Works. London: Henry Frowde, 1905 An elegantly bound set of the Oxford edition of Wordsworth’s poems, bound under the direction of Douglas Cockerell, the highly influential bookbinder who taught the founders of Sangorski & Sutcliffe and who managed the W. H. Smith & Son Bindery from 1905 to 1914. This copy includes the “WHS” blindstamp on the rear pastedown, indicating a binding “specially designed” by Cockerell (Maggs Bros., p. 202). Octavo (184 × 123 mm). Contemporary green morocco by W. H. Smith under the direction of Douglas Cockerell, spine lettered in gilt, frames and floral tooling to compartments and cover borders in gilt, triple gilt circular cornerpieces to covers, richly gilt-tooled floral turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Short splits to inner
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