A Little Learning
WAUGH, Evelyn
The First Volume of an Autobiography.
IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Chapman and Hall, 1964
Stock code: 42022
Price: £534.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (two portraits on one plate), title in red and black, 20 plates (one double-page) on 12 and a full-page pedigree; handsomely bound in full maroon crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made marbled slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
First volume of Waugh's autobiography, covering childhood, Lancing, Oxford (including the origins of Brideshead Revisited) and his experiences as a schoolmaster in North Wales.