Richmond, The Hogarth Press, 1923
One of only 460 copies. The Hogarth edition of The Waste Land was printed by hand by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in an edition of just 460 copies. The marbled paper for the boards had been tried out for a handful of copies of the 1919 Eliot book Poems, which was also handprinted. The problem endemic to the edition being that the paper is very thin and much given to sunning. Consequently nearly every copy we have seen is browned at the spine and most have significant wear and often loss to the backstrip. The present example is tanned for certain and has some typical minor wear but with barely any loss at all and with no repair whatsoever. Such copies are now extremely uncommon. A triumph of 20th-century English publishing.
First English edition; one of only 460 copies, printed by hand; 8vo; publisher's blue mottled boards, printed label on upper cover, fading to edges of covers and especially spine, rubbed at extremities, short split to lower joint.
Gallup A6c, State 1.
First English edition; one of only 460 copies, printed by hand; 8vo; publisher's blue mottled boards, printed label on upper cover, fading to edges of covers and especially spine, rubbed at extremities, short split to lower joint.
Gallup A6c, State 1.
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