Twelve Original Woodcuts

The first UK printing published by Hogarth Press , London in 1921. The BOOK is in Very Good condition. One of an edition of only 150 copies, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. 26 leaves, printed on rectos only, consisting of: title page, 12 woodcut illustrations printed in black, each preceded by a title leaf printed in red. Hogarth Press publications list to the rear as called for. Original marbled paper covers decorated by hand. Some offsetting from the cover turn-ins on the paste-downs. Free from inscriptions. Some rubbing and creasing to the yapped cover edges. Some splitting of the spine but the covers remain attached. Light age related markings and rubbing to the covers in places. Some toning to the paper label on the front cover but the label is complete. Internally the woodcuts are clean with just a hint of toning to the extreme page edges. Woolmer (13) quotes: 'Virginia Woolf in her diary entry for the 25th of November 1921 states : Roger's woodcuts, 150 copies, have been gulped down in two days. I have just finished stitching the last copies all but six. By the way, Rogers (sic) cover paper was not designed by Carrington; I get it from a little man in Holborn; it is clearly an imitation of the Kew Gardens cover'. This title went into two further impressions, all printed by the Woolfs, in 1922, with the reprints bound in buff paper wrappers and printed on coated paper without the titles to the woodcuts. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover and housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling, marbled inserts and a silk tie. Very scarce. More images on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.