A Study from Life
FROM THE LIBRARY OF EVELYN WAUGH
Echo De Paris A Study from Life
Jonathan Cape, 1923.
First edition, number 261 of 1000 copies. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards with title label to the spine. From the library of Evelyn Waugh, with his earliest bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy with some fading to the spine and chipping to the spine label.
Of the 3500 books from Waugh's library held by Ransom Centre at the University of Texas at Austin, "only a handful of earlier books from Waugh's library bear [this bookplate]" (Richard Oram - Cultural Record Keepers: The Evelyn Waugh Library). Because of the Ransom Centre's en bloc acquisition of Waugh's library, books from his library are rarely seen in commerce.
Rupert Fremlin and Waugh were at Lancing and Oxford together. At the time of publication of this book, they would be in their first year at Oxford, so it must be assumed that Waugh purloined the book from his friend. Waugh describes Fremlin as, "delightful, mercurial fellow... His alternations of exhuberance and depression - Fremlin's "states" - later became settled in melancholy. He was with us at university and died very young in West Africa." (A Little Learning)
PROVENANCE: From the library of Evelyn Waugh, with his earliest bookplate to the front pastedown. Also contains the ownership signature of Rupert Fremlin, a friend of Waugh's from Lancing.
Stock ID: 35965
£1,500.00
