Woolf Virginia

1963 · rif. 858P20 — London: Allen Lane 1963. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. A limited edition collection of one-hundred letters by Baron Corvo to John Lane including a signed letter from the editor Cecil Woolf. The first edition of this privately printed work of which only six hundred unnumbered copies were printed.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with eight plates four of which are facsimile of Corvo's letters.Collated complete.Edited by Cecil Woolf with a signed letter from Woolf loosely inserted 'For Oliver Stoner with very best wishes from the Editor Cecil Woolf'. Cecil was the nephew of the Bloomsbury Group Woolfs.The collected letters of Frederick Rolfe the Baron Corvo to John Lane including a total of one-hundred letters dating from 1896 to 1904.Lane was Corvo's publisher encouraging him to contribute his first literary work to the periodical 'Yellow Book'.Rolfe was an eccentric writer who went by the pseudonym Baron Corvo. In the original publisher's paper covered boards in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart with only a couple of light marks to the boards. Dust wrapper is very lightly edge worn including a small closed tear to the head of the rear wrap and tail of the rear wrap. A few minor marks to the dust wrapper. . Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Allen Lane hardcover