Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 48

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 10,000
A HOGARTH PRESS BESTSELLER (HOGARTH PRESS.) Fry, Roger. Twelve Original Woodcuts. 12 woodcut plates by Fry each preceded by a descriptive leaf; publisher's final ad leaf. 8vo, original hand-decorated stitched marbled paper wrappers with white printed cover label, spine and edges rubbed, very light soiling to label; neat owner's pencil inscription on front endpaper; an unusually good copy. London, 1921

Additional Details

first edition, first impression of this rare early Hogarth Press title. Printed and bound by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, "Woodcuts," as they referred to it, was a great success. Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary on 25 November 1921, "Roger's woodcuts, 150 copies, have been gulped down in 2 days. I have just finished stitching the last copies - all but six"--Woolmer 13.