THE ART OF DUNCAN GRANT

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a few small spots to the prelims and closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is spotted to the underside. Not price-clipped (£25 on the front flap).

A book of Duncan Grant's paintings alongside a biographical text. Loosely laid in are two cards from Richard Shore, an art historian who has written extensively on the Bloomsbury group (he appears six times in the bibliography of this book, page 97), addressed to a contemporary resident of Little Talland House (which was rented by Virginia Woolf from 1911-1912, and is close to Charleston, the country residence of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant) seeking, and apparently finding, information on the location of the scene depicted in Vanessa Bell's painting 'Conversation Piece'.