MANSFIELD, Katherine. Prelude, Richmond: Hogarth Press, [11 January 1911], 4°, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, limited to 300 copies, JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY'S COPY (publisher's advertisement slip pasted onto verso of front blank, light spotting affecting last few leaves), contemporary blue calf by the Central School of Arts and Crafts with decoration in gilt and blind (spine faded and lightly rubbed, inner hinges split), original vivid blue wrappers bound in, the covers with line-blocks by J. D. Fergusson printed in black depicting a woman's head (isolated dampstains), t.e.g. [Kirkpatrick A2]

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MANSFIELD, Katherine. Prelude, Richmond: Hogarth Press, [11 January 1911], 4°, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, limited to 300 copies, JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY'S COPY (publisher's advertisement slip pasted onto verso of front blank, light spotting affecting last few leaves), contemporary blue calf by the Central School of Arts and Crafts with decoration in gilt and blind (spine faded and lightly rubbed, inner hinges split), original vivid blue wrappers bound in, the covers with line-blocks by J. D. Fergusson printed in black depicting a woman's head (isolated dampstains), t.e.g. [Kirkpatrick A2]

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby's, 22nd July 1985, as lot 274, in a sale of English Literature, including items from the Library of J. M. Murry.

Lot Essay

Kirkpatrick writes: "A few copies have a line-block by J. D. Fergusson [in several states] ... Though these copies with the line-blocks are the first state, it is clear from Leonard Woolf's reply of 27 July 1929 to a query from Stanford University concerning such copies that no priority of publication may be assumed. He wrote 'Some of the first edition were published in a blue wrapper with a woodcut printed on it, and others were printed on the same kind of wrapper but without the woodcut. They were all issued simultaneously and are therefore samples of the first edition.' (Mantz The Critical Bibliography, 1931, pp. 32-33)."

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