Hogarth Press - Woolf, Leonard and Virginia
Two Stories
£3,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917. First edition , with ‘Publication No.1’ at head of title, [one of 150 copies ], 8vo, 4 woodcuts by Dora Carrington, sewn, the poet Camilla Doyle’s copy with her inscription on the title, this copy without initial and final blank, ink inscription on title “illustrated by Dora Carrington”, contemporary cloth with part of original yellow paper wrapper bearing title preserved on upper cover, [Woolmer 1; Kirkpatrick A2a]
Footnote
Note: Two Stories is the first publication produced by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house established by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1917. The title page states ‘Publication No. 1’ in the top-left corner. Entirely written and printed by the Woolfs, it contains the short stories ‘Three Jews’ by Leonard and ‘The Mark on the Wall’ by Virginia.
Dora Carrington, a British artist trained at the Slade School of Art, designed the four small yet detailed woodcut illustrations that accompany Two Stories. The 32 pages were sewn together and bound with paper covers by hand. Being bound on an ad-hoc basis, different covers exist: the British Library’s copy is bound in a blue weave-textured material.