An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847-1854.
p.r.b. An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847-1854.
Alastair Graham, 1926.
First edition. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine gilt, all edges uncut. Author's presentation inscription to the front end paper, "David + Tamara with love from Evelyn". Errata slip tipped in on p1. A very good copy indeed, with a trace of wear to the corners and a small stain to the bottom edges.
One of about 50 copies printed for the author. Apart from the unprocurable juvenilia The World to Come this little book was Waugh's first publication.
The inscription is to Waugh's friends David and Tamara Talbot Rice. David Talbot Rice (1903-1972), met Waugh at Oxford where both were members of the Hypocrites Club. In 1927 David married Tamara Abelevich Abelson (1904-1993), goddaughter of Tolstoy. She was admiringly described by Waugh as "the clever Russian" in his memoir, A Little Learning 1964. The Rices lived in the Cotswolds, close to Waugh's home at Stinchcombe. Talbot Rice's legacy as an influential art historian and successful trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland, is memorialised in the "Talbot Rice Gallery", an art centre in Edinburgh where he taught for nearly forty years.
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