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Description: FIRST EDITION, 24 plates, each with a monochrome reproduction of Duncan Grant's work printed on coated paper and with captioned interleaves, pp. xii, + Plates, 4to, original quarter cream cloth, white boards, the upper board with a design by the artist printed in black, backstrip with printed label, a little wear at backstrip ends, the boards browned with wear at corners, a few spots to edges and endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (recording it as the gift of 'J.M.K. [Keynes], see below), good. Laid in is an invitation to the opening of an exhibition, 'Design at Work', at Burlington House - addressed to Duncan Grant, and with his original sketch to the verso, in black and blue ink, of a female nude sat under a tree. The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Grant (and David Garnett, et al.), and a member of the Bloomsbury Group - which she entered alongside Carrington, her friend from the Slade School of Art. She assisted the Woolfs with their early printing, and had long relationships with Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell. She is mentioned as being probably the first heterosexual relationship of John Maynard Keynes - this book offering a token of that association, with her ex dono inscription recording it as the gift of 'JMK' (i.e., John Maynard Keynes). The scarce first edition of this work, one of at most 400 copies - the majority of the initial print-run of 1,000 copies were bound in 1930 with a cancel title-page calling it a 'New Edition'. The inaugural (but only) volume in a series. (Woolmer 31)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom