SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. The book very good, the cloth darkened at backstrip, the board corners and tips gently bumped. The binding tight and square, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. A little offsetting to endpapers, but the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket poor, creased along the spine panel with adhesive tape repair to verso, flap joints worn and split with further tape repair. Corners and tips bumped, but the front panel largely intact and clean, and fairly presentable thus.
One of Sackville-West’s most successful works, a satirical roman de mœurs criticising the life and customs of fashionable Edwardian society, of which Vita was all too familiar. In many senses, The Edwardians can be seen as a sister novel to Woolf’s Orlando—the former the basis for Vita’s struggles with duality and expectation, the latter a dreamlike vision of that unshackled. Uncommon.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. The book very good, the cloth darkened at backstrip, the board corners and tips gently bumped. The binding tight and square, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. A little offsetting to endpapers, but the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket poor, creased along the spine panel with adhesive tape repair to verso, flap joints worn and split with further tape repair. Corners and tips bumped, but the front panel largely intact and clean, and fairly presentable thus.
One of Sackville-West’s most successful works, a satirical roman de mœurs criticising the life and customs of fashionable Edwardian society, of which Vita was all too familiar. In many senses, The Edwardians can be seen as a sister novel to Woolf’s Orlando—the former the basis for Vita’s struggles with duality and expectation, the latter a dreamlike vision of that unshackled. Uncommon.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. The book very good, the cloth darkened at backstrip, the board corners and tips gently bumped. The binding tight and square, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper. A little offsetting to endpapers, but the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket poor, creased along the spine panel with adhesive tape repair to verso, flap joints worn and split with further tape repair. Corners and tips bumped, but the front panel largely intact and clean, and fairly presentable thus.
One of Sackville-West’s most successful works, a satirical roman de mœurs criticising the life and customs of fashionable Edwardian society, of which Vita was all too familiar. In many senses, The Edwardians can be seen as a sister novel to Woolf’s Orlando—the former the basis for Vita’s struggles with duality and expectation, the latter a dreamlike vision of that unshackled. Uncommon.