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In progress. . . . #crinum #crinumlily #virginiawoolfgarden #leonardwoolf #virginiawoolf #handdrawn #inkpen #inkpendrawing #instadraw https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFJG7YqaxE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

UNA STANZA TUTTA PER SÉ “L’unica vita eccitante è quella immaginaria. Appena metto in moto le rotelle nella mia testa non ho più molto bisogno di soldi o di vestiti, e neppure di una credenza, un letto a Rodmell o un divano”. 🌷A Rodmell, nel Sussex, la Woolf aveva una casa, un pittoresco cottage dalle mura bianche immerso nella campagna, che chiamava The Monk’s House (tutt’oggi esistente e visitabile). 🎩👒Virginia Woolf, i suoi fratelli e un gruppo di altri intellettuali e artisti inglesi animarono il Bloomsbury Group dal 1906 fino alla II Guerra Mondiale. 👉🏻ve ne parlo nelle storie di oggi #virginiawoolf #vanessabell #bloomsburygroup #leonardwoolf #aroomsofonesown #unastanzatuttapersé #vitasackvillewest #vitaandvirginia #iris #rocailleblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXxrQTneLA/?igshid=1q6ro7qzpol42

AVANT-GARDE BOOK DESIGN: E McKnight-Kauffer (1890-1954) was a fantastic designer and graphic artist who was American-born, but worked in Britain for most of his career. His book jackets designs reveal his interest in photomontage in the 1930s: the integration of photography, colour and typography. In a 1937 article in Architecture Review, he argued that techniques of photography “have revealed new and astonishing experience for the eye and the imagination … The quick registration that the camera can give should be used as part of modern decoration.” McKnight Kauffer designed a number of books for Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, including most notably this celebrated cover for ‘Quack Quack’ (1935). The book expressed Woolf’s views on Mussolini and his Fascist ambitions, with a title suggesting barnyard sounds of the orating Hitler and Mussolini. He matched photographs of the Hawaiian war god Kukailimoku with his bulging eyes to those of the gesticulating dictators. Alongside, here is the more classical lithographed design for LH Myers ‘Strange Glory’ (1935) - Myers was an American author who was the father of the artist EQ Nicholson (and himself a friend of many artists). Thirdly, the design for HG Wells’ ‘Man who could work Miracles’ (1936) for Dennis Cohen’s Cresset press. This again features photomontage: a dramatic close-up of the head of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses which alludes to the content of the text, rather than illustrating it. These covers are from my collection of 1930s dust-jackets. There’s a new book out on McKnight Kauffer’s designs, which I’m keen to get soon to put all this in context. #emcknightkauffer #design #hogarthpress #leonardwoolf #leomyers #lhmyers #photomontage #bookstagram #book #coverart #illustration #dustjacket #bibliophile #libre #booklover #books #booksbooksbooks (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKGWoLdl-_R/?igshid=ebbl7ney50h5

Nueva entrega de la historia de la edición artesanal, amigxs: Virginia y Leonard Woolf en la Hogarth Press. . Pueden leerlo en la página de la librería @_escaramuza . #edicionartesanal #hogarthpress #virginiawoolf #leonardwoolf #historiadelaedicionartesanal #ericschierloh #diy #diyordie #imprimivos https://www.instagram.com/p/CB0_bZ5gJPy/?igshid=1mm3jlnnswox6

A Writer’s Diary: Being Extracts From the Diary of Virginia Woolf edited by Leonard Woolf is my first ever, @persephonebooks and was purchased when I was in London last month. Isn’t it so lovely?! I am very excited to read it and was about to start but then wondered if I should be reading this before or after the Virginia Woolf biography by Hermione Lee, which I also planned on reading this month. I would appreciate any advice. Sending #WoolfWednesday wishes to all of you even if you have never read any of her work...perhaps this is the year to start. ☺️ * * Btw, when you purchase any book from @persephonebooks it comes with a colourful, Bloomsbury print bookmark which matches the book’s endpaper. Each book has a different design. This particular endpaper/bookmark was taken from the original jacket design for A Writer’s Diary by Vanessa Bell. * * * * * * * #awritersdiary #virginiawoolf #leonardwoolf @persephonebooks #persephonebooks #persephoneclassics #persephonebookmarker #woolfite #hogarthpress #womenwriters #bloomsburyset #bloomsburygroup #vanessabell #fortheloveofbooks #bookandtea #pagesandpetals #booksandflowers #booksandblooms

"Pagamos el precio por nuestro reinado en sociedad con un aburrimiento infernal"#26febrero #VirginiaWoolf #Diario #📚 #LaMuerteDeVirginia #LeonardWoolf #TheJourneyNotTheArrivalMatters #BloomsburyGroup #libro #lecturas2017 #cita #read #biography #books #bookstagram #bookworm #bookquote #libroabierto #reading #📖 #BibliotecaLibro #leyendo

L. Woolf, Clear Thinking