KEW GARDENS

London: The Hogarth Press, (1927). First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Title and limitation pages with moderate foxing, light foxing scattered throughout; front board very slightly bowed, light rubbing to boards and corners. Very Good. Vanessa Bell. Third Edition and the First Illustrated Edition bound in the original brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell's illustrations, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down; 45 pages with text printed on rectos only and with decorations by Vanessa Bell on every page. Copy #118 of only 500 numbered copies, some of which, as is this copy, were SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator. First published in 1919 with only two illustrations by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, this is the most desirable edition of this short story.