Prelude.

Bookseller Notes

A poor copy of a fragile work, but a notable association copy - being the copy of Barbara Bagenal, who at this time was assisting the Woolfs with the Press, and is known to have been involved in printing this work (her own recollection, contrasting with that of Leonard Woolf, is that she alone set up the type for the title-page, but Virginia in her Diary notes how disappointed they were with her work overall). In her memoir of this time, collected in 'Recollections of Virginia Woolf' (1972), Bagenal refers to a copy of the work given to her by Leonard that is 'one of my most cherished possessions' - this may be that very copy, though it does not obviously have the look of being cherished in a preservative fashion.A short story, and the second book of both the author and printers (although Woolmer clarifies that it followed A3 in publication).