The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925
Pope The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926.
First US edition, and first edition in hardback. Original paper covered boards with printed label on the upper cover. Inscribed by Strachey for Henry Lamb on the front endpaper, "To H.L. from the Lecturer". A very good copy, small chip to the edge of the title label and some fading to the boards.
A fantastic Bloomsbury association, inscribed by Strachey for the artist Henry Lamb, whose portrait of a languid Strachey is one of his most accomplished pictures.
Lamb was a protégé of Ottoline Morrell who introduced him into the Bloomsbury sphere. Strachey first set eyes on the painter at a Gordon Square soiree in 1905 and was immediately struck by his beauty, confiding his affection to Duncan Grant. While Lytton almost certainly never realised this affection, they maintained a friendship and correspondence, and he later sat for him a number of times between 1908 and 1914, culminating in the famous portrait.
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