Woolf Virginia

WOOLF, Virginia; BELL, Vanessa (illus).Biblio.com

Kew Gardens.

1927ref. 185114London: The Hogarth Press 1927. Signed by both sisters First fully illustrated edition third overall signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell though not called for in the limitation. It is hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf as number 106 from a limited edition of 500 copies. The collaboration between author and artist during its initial publication in 1919 held a great personal importance to Woolf who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" Willis p. 31. Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text acting as borders punctuation bridges or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell and she was not satisfied with them. Kew Gardens was Virginia Woolf's third published book and one of her early shorter fictions which "were less stories than theoretical expositions of the new form of fiction that she had come upon" ODNB. Its unexpected success was "the most dramatic factor in the Woolfs' becoming significant commercial publishers" Woolmer p. xxiii. Sales dramatically increased following a review in the Times Literary Supplement hailing it as "a work of art. a thing of original and therefore strange beauty with its own 'atmosphere' its own vital force" 29 May 1919. Octavo 249 x 185 mm. Decorative floral frames throughout the text by Vanessa Bell. Title page printed in brown. Text printed on rectos only. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in brown morocco titles blocked to spine in cream onlay to front board copied from the original decorated paper boards designed by Vanessa Bell decorative endpapers based on designs by Vanessa Bell in loop and spot pattern gilt edges. Some spotting to title page an excellent copy in a fine binding. Kirkpatrick A3c; Woolmer 155 both noting that "some" copies were signed by Woolf and Bell. John H. Willis Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers 1992. hardcover

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