Lot 112
  • 112

Woolf, Virginia.

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Description

  • To The Lighthouse. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927
first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, occasional browning and spotting, dust-jacket slightly browned at spine with head of spine slightly frayed

Literature

Connolly 54; Kirkpatrick A10(a)

Catalogue Note

First edition in jacket of Woolf's most famous and most autobiographical novel.

"One of her few novels where something happens, written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision" (Connolly)

Loosely inserted is a four page leaflet issued by The Hogarth Press advertising other works by Woolf (To the Lighthouse is noted as "In Preparation").