Buy this book on-line VIRGINIA WOOLF. Frederic William Maitland : The Life and Letters of Leslie StephenDuckworth, London, 1906
First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 509pp. Black buckram with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine. With a tissue-protected portrait and four further photogravure portrait plates (two from photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron) also with tissue guards present, with one guard slightly torn. Top edge dust soiled and with a little light bruising to the backstrip ends. Free endpapers lightly toned, and with a little fox-spotting to three or four preliminary and concluding leaves. A small area of surface marking to the base of the upper board from where a small library plate has been removed, and with an inkstamp to the rear pastedown stating "Purchased from the Library". Name and address details of a former owner inked to the tip of the front free endpaper. A lovely, bright copy of a work which is best known for including the first bookform appearance by Virginia Woolf, who contributes a three-page recollection of her father under her then-name Adeline Virginia Stephen. Thomas Hardy also contributes recollections of the subject, plus the first printing of his poem 'The Schreckhorn'.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of VIRGINIA WOOLF. Frederic William Maitland : The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, atlases, incunabula, used books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |