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(ERAGNY PRESS.) White, Diana. Preface to an Album of Poems from the Livre de Jade. Translated from the Chinese by Judith Gautier. Decorations on title-page and three leaves. Thin 12mo, string-tied in Chinese style with mounted cover decoration. copy number 8 of only 60 copies printed for Ethel Voynich, and with her signature on front free endpaper. This being the 1948 limited edition reprint after the 1911 first edition. (Np: Privately printed for Orovida Pissarro, 1948)
with--an autograph letter signed by lucien pissarro indicating that the last vellum copy of the Livre de Jade had already been sold. 1 page, 8vo, on Eragny Press letterhead. Undated, but circa 1911.
Ethel Lilian Voynich was a novelist and musician, the daughter of the famous mathematician George Boole. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, a revolutionary and an antiquarian bookseller. She is best known for her novel, The Gadfly, based on the life of British secret agent Sidney Reilly.
