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Roger Fry; A Biography, by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1940 1st impression

LAN8806
Original price $67.00 - Original price $67.00
Original price
$67.00
$67.00 - $67.00
Current price $67.00

Roger Fry; A Biography, by Virginia Woolf. Biography of the English painter and art critic, Roger Fry (1866-1934), who was a hugely influential figure in the British art world.

Published by The Hogarth Press, London. 1940 first edition, first impression.

A good cloth hardback with gilt title to spine. Covers are heavily sunned. The original green is much faded and is now brown to the spine. Covers bumped, scuffed and rubbed with fraying to head and tail of spine

Text is generally still bright and clean throughout, with mild spotting to endpapers and offsetting to half title. Some mild age toning to paper stock. With portrait frontispiece at front and a 16 plates, including frontispiece (as called for). Imperfect, but an uncommon first impression of this biography.

Text in English.

307pp + 16pp Plates.

Weight approximately 540g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 

221mm high x 145mm wide x 34mm deep.