MANSFIELD, Katherine. Prelude, Richmond: Hogarth Press, [11 January 1911], 4°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies (residue of adhesive affecting margins of pages 28 and 29), original vivid blue wrappers, the covers with line-blocks printed in black depicting a woman's head by J. D. Fergusson (inner hinges broken, joints split, extremities chipped). Together with another copy of the same work, but this in plain blue wrappers without the line-blocks (spine of wrappers faded, extremities chipped). Both copies contained in a single specially-made red half-morocco slipcase. [Kirkpatrick A2] (2)

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MANSFIELD, Katherine. Prelude, Richmond: Hogarth Press, [11 January 1911], 4°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies (residue of adhesive affecting margins of pages 28 and 29), original vivid blue wrappers, the covers with line-blocks printed in black depicting a woman's head by J. D. Fergusson (inner hinges broken, joints split, extremities chipped). Together with another copy of the same work, but this in plain blue wrappers without the line-blocks (spine of wrappers faded, extremities chipped). Both copies contained in a single specially-made red half-morocco slipcase. [Kirkpatrick A2] (2)

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Kirkpatrick writes: "A few copies have a line-block by J. D. Furgusson [in several states] ... Though these copies with the line-blocks are the first state, it is clear from Leonard Woolf's reply of 27 July 1929 to a query from Stanford University concerning such copies that no priority of publication may be assumed. He wrote 'Some of the first edition were published in a blue wrapper with a woodcut printed on it, and others were printed on the same kind of wrapper but without the woodcut. They were all printed on the same kind of wrapper but without the woodcut. They were all issued simultaneously and are therefore samples of the first edition.' (Mantz The Critical Bibliography, 1931, pp. 32-33)."

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