S I EGFRI ED SASSOON
FOR OTTOLINE MORRELL 6. Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians Privately printed at the University Press, 1925.
First edition, one of 99 copies. Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Lady Ottoline Morrell with the author’s monogram. A near fine copy, with just a touch of tanning to the spine. [40852] £2,500
A meaningful association copy. Ottoline Mor- rell was one of the most significant figures in Sassoon’s life as his war poems began to gain popularity. She became aware of him when she read his poem ‘To Victory’ in The Times on 15 January 1916, and traced him through Edmund Gosse. He would stay at Garsington when on leave and Morrell did much to support and promote
his work. Like her he was an admirer of the Ballets Russes, and she wrote of her pleas- ure at finding ‘in the dark prison-like days a sympathetic desire - to fly out beyond into the beauty and colour and freedom that one so longs for’ - Max Egremont (Siegfried Sassoon). One of the verses, “To An Old Lady, Dead” is annotated, presumably by Morrell’s son Ju- lian, “My Grandmother H.A.Morrell”.
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