first edition
1925 · London
by FORSTER, E.M. [Edward Morgan]
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First Separate Edition. First impression. Octavo; (21.5cm.); stiff cream-colored card wrappers, printed in black; 23pp. Covers slightly toned and soiled, with faint stains and small losses to paper at spine ends; just VG. A variant issue, lacking Vanessa Bell's cover decorations; identified by Woolmer as an assumed proof. Published as no. XII in the Hogarth Essays; this is the first separate edition of an essay that first appeared in the Calendar of Modern Letters for November, 1925. KIRKPATRICK A11. WOOLMER 61. (Inventory #: 61988)