Poetry
£225
London, L, & V. Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Number 270 of 350 signed copies. Early issue with comma after 'L' in imprint. 8vo. Original patterned wrappers with printed title label. Original plain glassine dust-jacket.
George "Dadie" Rylands (1902–1999), Cambridge literary scholar, King's College fellow, Shakespeare authority and theatre director (later famous for coaching John Gielgud and directing the Marlowe Society) who moved in the Bloomsbury and Cambridge Apostles circles and briefly worked as an assistant at the Hogarth Press in 1924. The Woolfs published two volumes of his verse, Russet and Taffeta (1925) and this collection of pastoral lyrics, together with his dissertation Words and Poetry (1928).