Order form for 'Kew Gardens' a limited edition, with specimen page (c 1927)

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[[MS 2750/560/1]]

 

A LIMITED EDITION OF 
KEW GARDENS 
By VIRGINIA WOOLF 
Designed and Decorated by VANESSA BELL 
15s net.

The original edition of Kew Gardens, which was published in 1919, has been long out of print. The present edition is crown 4to and is limited to 500 numbered copies. The whole book has been designed and each page is decorated by Mrs. Bell. The cover, printed in three colours, is also designed by her. A specimen page is given overleaf.

ORDER FORM

Please send me __ cop __ of KEW GARDENS by Virginia Woolf for which I enclose the sum of ___

Name 
Address

 

THE HOGARTH PRESS 
52 TAVISTOCK SQUARE 
LONDON, W.C. 1

 

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[specimen page with printed text in the centre, surrounded by Vanessa Bell's flower design]

 

Kew Gardens

 

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end.
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Rights Statement:

Reproduced with permission of Penguin Random House UK Archive and Library owner of the Hogarth Press archive collection and with thanks to The Society of Authors. This item is held by the University of Reading Special Collections.

The specimen page is the first page of the book and is still within copyright and is reproduced with permission from the copyright holder. This item has not been made available with a CC BY-NC-ND licence and cannot be downloaded and shared. Please see terms of use page for further detail

 

Source: MS 2750/560/1

Image Rights Holder: © Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.

Order form for 'Kew Gardens' a limited edition, with specimen page (c 1927)

Author:

The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell

Related To:

Third English (limited) edition, 1927, Kew Gardens

Library:

University of Reading, Special Collections

Archival Folder:

MS 2750/560_Kew_Gardens

Order form for Hogarth Press customers, also details the first print date of the original edition of Kew Gardens. Attributions to Vanessa Bell are also included. There is a specimen page included with the order form which contains the work of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

 

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