VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE UNCOMMON BOOKBINDER.
London: Cecil Woolf, [2000]. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 24 pp., 8 unnumbered pages of 10 color plates, 6 b&w. Glossary, conspectus, bibliography, and notes. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, else about fine. No other copies currently available in commerce [June 2024]. Numbers from the Bloomsbury Heritage Series are now very scarce.
First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 27. Virginia Woolf was an amateur bookbinder who bound or re-covered books throughout her adult life, both for herself and for others. It is not known what motivated her to engage in bookbinding, but she was a publisher who set type and sewed the hand-printed books of her publishing house. She may have done binding as a creative outlet as her books exhibited enthusiasm rather than skill. Item #570
OCLC: 46648822.
Price: $125.00