AUTHOR'S OWN COPY
Eminent Victorians
Chatto & Windus, 1918.
First edition. Original grey cloth with paper title label to the spine. Top edge gilt. Author's own copy, with Strachey's bookplate, designed by Dora Carrington, to the front pastedown and ownership signature to the verso of the front blank. A very good copy with some wear to the spine label and edges.
The author's own copy of his most famous work, upon which much of his reputation as an insightful yet irreverent biographer rests.
Strachey's bookplate was designed by his lover, Dora Carrington around 1930. In a diary entry of March 1931, Carrington remarks, "As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And suddenly a premonition of a day when these labels will no longer (be) in this library came over me. I longed to ask Lytton not to stick in any more."
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