HOGARTH PRESS Fry Roger Twelve Original Woodcuts 1921

Sale 2175 - Lot 56

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

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. one of 150 copies. London, 1921

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first edition, first impression of this scarce 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.