Roger Fry — Transformations: Critical and Speculative Essays on Art

London, Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A collection of essays concerning art by Bloomsbury Group member Roger Fry, an interesting association copy signed by Frances Partridge. A series of critical and speculative essays on art by Roger Fry, concerning the transmutations and transformations necessary to the creation of aesthetic. Discussions vary from culture and snobbism to London sculptors and sculptures, Fra Bartolommeo and Vincent Van Gogh, modern drawing and plastic colour among others. The first edition of this work. Collated, complete with thirty-six full page plates and other illustrations in text. Roger Fry was an English painter and art critic, scholar of the Old Masters. An interesting association copy, signed by Frances Partridge to the front free endpaper. Both Frances Partridge and Roger Fry were members of the prominent literary Bloomsbury Group together with Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Clive Bell among others. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, minor chipping tot he head of the spine and extremities of the boards. Minor marking to the spine and front board. With some darkening to the spine. Signed by Frances Partridge to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to the occasional page, particularly to the first and last few leaves, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. With thirty-six full page plates as well as other illustrations in text. Collated, complete. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .