Author: Michael Holroyd
Title: Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography
Description: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Michael Holroyd's illustrated critical biography of Lytton Strachey in two volumes. The complete two-volume-set of Lytton Strachey's critical biography by Michael Holroyd.Michael Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Lytton Strachey's papers, including letters and previously unpublished correspondence with friends and acquaintances who comprised the Bloomsbury group. This book contains the whole story of Lytton, from his birth in 1880, his years in Cambridge, and through the development of his career as a writer. Enclosed in its unclipped dust wrappers and housed in its slipcase. Collated, complete with coloured frontispiece to each volume and thirty-two full page plates.Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic, awarded with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1921 for his biography Queen Victoria. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography, to which he introduced a psychological insight.Slipcase lightly marked and rubbed. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent with light shelf wear only, with light age toning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

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