Kew Gardens by Woolf, Virginia; Vanessa Bell [Illustrator] - 1927

London: Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, Random House. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 070116879X . A 1999 facsimile edition of the original, limited 1919 edition. In her short story, Virginia Woolf presents musings set against the marvelous Kew Gardens, just outside London. With decorations on every page in black & white by her sister, Vanessa Bell. This facsimile even offers a duplicated limitation page, purporting to limit "this edition" to 500 numbered copies. --- In brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell art in color to front panel. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An about-Near Fine copy with ever-so-slight back cover soiling, else clean, tightly-bound, and bright.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; c.50 pp pages .

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in sky blue buffalo skin and light blue Stonehenge paper. Leather spine embroidered with author's name in pale pink cotton floss. Trays covered in pale yellow handmade paper and lined with light grey Novasuede. Exquisitely bound in a manner and style reflecting Vanessa Bell's illustrations. First fully illustrated edition, hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf, this being number 48 of 500. This was a collaboration between author and artist which was deeply important to Woolf, who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" (Willis, p31). "Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text, acting as borders, punctuation, bridges, or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast, the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell, and she was not satisfied with… Read More