Virginia Woolf — Orlando: A Biography

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking feminist work, dedicated to her literary contemporary and lover, Vita Sackville-West. The first edition, first impression. With a frontispiece, and seven full-page monochrome plates. Collated complete. A feminist classic and one of Woolf's most popular novels, 'Orlando' is satirical account of English literary history as seen through the eyes of the titular character, who begins the book as a young Elizabethan nobleman, and undergoes a metamorphosis to conclude the work as a female, on Thursday, 11th October 1928 -  the day the novel was published. Woolf incorporated details from the family history of her lover, Vita Sackville-West, to whom the book is dedicated. Some of the illustrated plates depict Sackville-West herself dressed as Orlando through history, while others are paintings of her ancestors. As such, the work has sometimes been termed 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip age toned, with fading to board perimeters. Bump to back strip head and tail. Spotting to text block fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot and handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .