The Life of George Crabbe, by his Son.

(Forster.) [CRABBE (George, Rev., Jr.)]

The Life of George Crabbe, by his Son.

With an Introduction by E.M. Forster [pp.vii-xix]. [The World's Classics series, CDIV.]

Description: FIRST FORSTER EDITION, pp. xxiv, 324, foolscap 8vo, contemporary full calf binding by Morrell, the backstrip decorated gilt in compartments between five raised bands, lettered gilt on a chestnut brown label, gilt borders to both boards, the upper board stamped with the letter K (for Baron Kennet, see below), a little rubbed to joints and corners, marbled edges and endpapers, the front pastedown with the bookplate of 'Kennet of the Dene' (i.e., Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet), very good

Publication Details: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, [1932]

Notes: Inscribed by E.M. Forster, who provides an excellent scholarly Introduction, longitudinally on the inner margin of the initial blank, in the form of an equation: 'E.M.F [over] George x Crabbe + every good wish = all that seems possible, Xmas 1932'. The recipient, this copy bound for his library, was the politician (by this time a Conservative) and author, Edward Hilton Young - a Cambridge contemporary of Forster and others who would form the bedrock of the Bloomsbury Group, though Young's friendship with the Stephen siblings (principally, Thoby) predated that period, and extended to a failed m...moreInscribed by E.M. Forster, who provides an excellent scholarly Introduction, longitudinally on the inner margin of the initial blank, in the form of an equation: 'E.M.F [over] George x Crabbe + every good wish = all that seems possible, Xmas 1932'. The recipient, this copy bound for his library, was the politician (by this time a Conservative) and author, Edward Hilton Young - a Cambridge contemporary of Forster and others who would form the bedrock of the Bloomsbury Group, though Young's friendship with the Stephen siblings (principally, Thoby) predated that period, and extended to a failed marriage proposal to Virginia. Though his political career curtailed Young's literary endeavours (following a volume of War poetry, 'The Muse at Sea', in 1919) he continued to move in the literary circles of Bloomsbury, and Forster credited him with advice that stimulated the completion of 'A Passage to India'. HIDE

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Price: £600

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: [1932]

Stock Number: 74883

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