PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS by STRACHEY, Lytton - 1931

London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First edition. Gilt cloth. Cloth faintly sunned through jacket, otherwise a very good or better copy, with the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Purdy affixed to front pastedown, in slightly tanned and nicked typographic dust jacket. First edition. Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) English writer, critic, and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group was also the author of EMINENT VICTORIANS, in which he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and his special brand of wit. His biography QUEEN VICTORIA (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey died on 21 January 1932, aged 51. It is reported that his final words were: "If this is dying, then I don't think much of it." -- [Unknown].