Shelfmark
Id7.3.05
Author
Title
Vile bodies / Evelyn Waugh.
Edition
Reset and reprinted.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., October, 1937.
Physical description
217 p. ; 23 cm
Note
"First published -- January, 1930 ... Eleventh impression -- October, 1930 ... Reprinted pocket edition -- January, 1932. Reprinted (Modern Library) -- July 1935. Reset and reprinted -- October, 1937." -- title-page verso.
Note
Publisher's 20th-century blue cloth binding; author, title, and publisher stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Additional red and black printed pictorial title-page within the preliminaries.
Provenance
Bookplate of Ashton-Gwatkin, Barton Library Pagham, depicting a clerical figure and seal. Designed by H.B.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "F. T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, with the friendly regard of the author's [Evelyn Waugh] father, [signed] Arthur Waugh. October : xxx : 1941. "Experimentum alii faciant in corpore vili: Ridetem verum dicere nulla vetant."" The beginning of the Latin phrase has subsequently been corrected in pencil to 'experimenta'.
Provenance
Loose ALS from the author's father, Arthur Waugh, to Ashton-Gwatkin, dated All Soul's Day 1941, directing the Latin ms. inscription to be altered to 'experimenta'.
Provenance
From the library of Frank Ashton-Gwatkin.
Binding
With blue and white dust-jacket; bound by "G. and J. Kitcat, Ltd., London. Flexiback binding patent. No. 441294" (printed on title-page verso).
Added entry--name
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur, 1889 - 1976 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--name
G. & J. Kitcat Ltd. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43563