Live auction - Lot 145
[UK - Hogarth Press]
The story of the Siren.
Richmond, printed by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [9 July] 1920
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo (quires unopened).
Green marbled paper wrappers, black lettered label on front cover (sl. rubbed on edges).
First edition of this work by the English novelist Forster (1879-1970). Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies according Woolmer. Copy on laid paper. "Virginia set the type for this book" (Woolmer). With a list of the Hogarth's publications at the end.
Ref. Woolmer, A checklist of the Hogarth Press 1917-1946, 9. - Ransom, Hogarth Press, 6.
Joined: Rylands, George - Poems. London, printed & published by L, [sic] & V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [December] 1931. 12mo. Publ. cardboard, lettered label on front cover (without the plain tissue dust jacket). Edition limited to 350 numbered and signed copies (n. 260). Early state - more common - with a comma after Leonard's initial in the imprint. Ref. Woolmer, 269. (2 vol.)