Bookplate for LYTTON STRACHEY.
London: 1931.
Dora Carrington. First Edition. Hardcover. Dora Carrington. Bookplate for Lytton Strachey. Circa 1931.
Small. 1" by 3/4 " with the words Lytton Strachey in a plaque or cartouche with folded edges surrounded by net-like cross hatching in dark sepia tone. Stuck to a marbled board: 6 1/2" x 4".
Carrington wrote of this bookplate in her diary (March 20 1931) rather prophetically:- 'As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And suddenly a premonition of a day when these labels will no longer (be) in this library came over me. I longed to ask Lytton not to stick in any more.'
Strachey died 10 months later.
Item #33623 Price: US$3,500.00