Kew Gardens
Woolf, Virginia & Vanessa Bell
London. The Hogarth Press. 1927
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Ellen Terry's copy of Woolf's Kew Gardens with illustrations by her sister Vanessa Bell.
From the edition limited to 500 copies, this copy signed by Woolf and Bell in purple ink to justification.
The actress Ellen Terry (1847 - 1928), a leading light of the Victorian stage, had first appeared in The Winter's Tale in 1856. Her son Edward Gordon Craig, the noted artist, illustrator and theatrical designer was born to Terry in 1872. Terry was much admired by Virginia Woolf (see below) and died the year after the publication of this volume.
'Shakespeare could not fit her, not Ibsen; nor Shaw. But there is, after all, a greater dramatist than Shakespeare, Ibsen, or Shaw. There is Nature … now and again Nature creates a new part, an original part. The actors who act that part always defy our attempts to name them … And thus while other actors are remembered because they were Hamlet, Phedre, or Cleopatra, Ellen Terry is remembered because she was Ellen Terry.' (Woolf on Ellen Terry).
[PROVENANCE: From the library of Ellen Terry with her hand-coloured decorative bookplate designed by her son, Edward Gordon Craig; by descent to Edward Gordon Craig, with his hand-coloured decorative bookplate].
From the edition limited to 500 copies, this copy signed by Woolf and Bell in purple ink to justification.
The actress Ellen Terry (1847 - 1928), a leading light of the Victorian stage, had first appeared in The Winter's Tale in 1856. Her son Edward Gordon Craig, the noted artist, illustrator and theatrical designer was born to Terry in 1872. Terry was much admired by Virginia Woolf (see below) and died the year after the publication of this volume.
'Shakespeare could not fit her, not Ibsen; nor Shaw. But there is, after all, a greater dramatist than Shakespeare, Ibsen, or Shaw. There is Nature … now and again Nature creates a new part, an original part. The actors who act that part always defy our attempts to name them … And thus while other actors are remembered because they were Hamlet, Phedre, or Cleopatra, Ellen Terry is remembered because she was Ellen Terry.' (Woolf on Ellen Terry).
[PROVENANCE: From the library of Ellen Terry with her hand-coloured decorative bookplate designed by her son, Edward Gordon Craig; by descent to Edward Gordon Craig, with his hand-coloured decorative bookplate].
[24 unnumbered leaves]. Contents: decorative title printed in red, justification leaf, 23 leaves with Woolf's text, each with decorative border and illustration by Bell printed recto only, blank leaf with colophon verso. 4to. (262 x 196 mm). Original publisher's printed boards, upper board with title and colour decoration after a design by Bell, small repairs to corners and spine, later brown cloth box.
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