WAUGH (Evelyn)
Rossetti. His Life and Works.
Great Contemporaries.
A fine association copy, from one great English comic writer to another, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Anthony Powell “Tony from Evelyn, April 1928”, with Powell’s armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Powell and Waugh first met at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Holborn, establishing a life-long friendship. It was Powell, who was working for Duckworth, who helped Waugh with the contract for the publication of this his first book, the presentation of this volume expressive of Waugh’s gratitude. In his autobiography, ‘A Little Learning’, Waugh slightly dismissively described his early relationship with Powell, saying they ‘stood on friendly terms though barely in friendship’, Powell putting more feeling into his remark on hearing of Waugh’s death ‘His going means that a chunk of my own life has gone too’.
Some small foxing to the front endpapers and the rear pastedown, spine faded, rear board sunned.
