Virginia Woolf and the Raverats Limited Edition: A Different Sort of Friendship - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904555012 ISBN 13: 9781904555018

Publisher: Clear Press Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

A collector's limited edition of only 500 of this beautiful quarter bound, marbled covered book in a buckram slip case, signed by the editor.

An extraordinary relationship between one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and Gwen and Jacques Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin and her French painter husband who was dying of MS. This poignant friendship is portrayed in their complete correspondence and other writings and illustrated by photos and the Raverats’ wood engravings, paintings and drawings.

This is a friendship whose later substance and passion was entirely expressed by letter. But the book is not only a complete record of their correspondence, but includes much previously unpublished material. None of the Raverat letters, the extracts from Gwen Raverat’s other writings, her powerful sketches of her husband on his death bed, nor Jacques’paintings have been published before. There are facsimile reproductions of crucial letters, diary and journal entries.

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Review

Very moving, a compelling read. -- Henrietta Garnett, great niece of Virginia Woolf

From the Publisher

A Limited Edition of 500, the book has a marker ribbon, head & tail bands and is quarter bound with Comptom Marbling paper sides, cloth top and tail slipcase with Ingres laid paper wrap.

It is illustrated with 44 black and white wood engravings, drawings and photographs by the Raverats and 8 colour pages of their paintings.

Many of the letters and other writings have not been published before.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clear Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904555012
• ISBN 13: 9781904555018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Pryor William