Two stories de Virginia Woolf

Pour fêter ses 100 ans, Hogarth press (la maison d'édition créée par Virginia et Leonard Woolf) vient de rééditer leur premier ouvrage en donnant un petit coup de neuf à la couverture et à la reliure. On y trouve les illustrations originales de Dora Carrington.

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Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. With her husband, Leonard Woolf, she started the Hogarth Press in 1917: the list ranged widely in fiction, poetry, politics and psychoanalysis, and published all Virginia Woolf’s own work.

Its first publication appeared in 2017: Two Stories, bound in bright Japanese paper, contained a short story from both Virginia and Leonard. Typeset and bound by Virginia, with illustrations by Dora Carrington, 134 copies were printed by Leonard using a small handpress installed in the dining room at Hogarth House, Richmond.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of ‘Publication No. 1’ this new edition of Two Stories takes the original text of Virginia’s story, ‘The Mark on the Wall’ (with illustrations by Dora Carrington), and pairs it with a new story, ‘St Brides Bay’, by Mark Haddon, a lifelong reader of Virginia Woolf.

TWO STORIES also includes a portrait of Virginia Woolf by Mark Haddon, and a short introduction from the publisher about the founding of the Press.

Il est tellement joli (le rendu est encore plus beau sur Instagram) que j'en ai commandé un exemplaire. Je vous en reparle bientôt 

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