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HOGARTH PRESS. Fry, Roger. Twelve Original Woodcuts. 1921

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; an unusually good copy. London, 1921

  • Notes: first edition, first impression of this rare 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.
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