Woolf, Virginia

Flush; A Biography

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London Hogarth Press 1933 First Edition Photographic frontispiece of Flush and nine plates, including four drawings by Vanessa Bell. 8vo. Finely bound by the Bayntun-Riviere bindery in full blue morocco, spine with five raised bands, lettered and dated in gilt, hand marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. "Flush" is Virginia Woolf's witty, playful biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved pet spaniel. Reading the love letters of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Woolf found that "the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a life". She also had a cocker spaniel at this time, called Pinka, given to her by Vita Sackville-West. Flush had quite an eventful life. He was kidnapped three times by East End dog thieves and accompanied the Brownings to Italy after their clandestine marriage. Virginia Woolf brilliantly captures the sights and smells of Wimpole Street, Whitechapel and Florence from a canine perspective. Her nephew, Quentin Bell, described "Flush" as "not so much a book by a dog lover, as a book by someone who would like to be a dog". Published in October 1933 and the Book Society's choice for the same month, "Flush" was Woolf's most successful work to that date and has lost none of its charm.

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• ordernr.: 2126

• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)