WOOLF (Virginia).
Monday or Tuesday. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell.
Woolf’s first collection of short stories, and the only collection to be entirely compiled by her. A departure from conventional style, the stories were praised for their originality, and perhaps set her on the path to write more experimentally in her novels.
One of 1000 copies printed by the help of F.T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, near-neighbours of the Woolfs’ in Richmond, who would help Leonard and Virginia with printing bigger projects occasionally. Leonard Woolf helped in the production of the machine-printed copies of this book and described the scene thus: “He [McDermott] got so much ink on the blocks and his paper was so soft and spongy that little fluffy bits of paper were torn off… we had to stop every few minutes and clean everything, but even so the pages were an appalling sight”.
A very good copy overall, boards showing some wear and with a few foxed spots. New endpapers, browned at gutter.
Kirkpatrick A5a.
