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First edition, first impression, from the library of Barbara Hiles Bagenal, a Bloomsburyite and former apprentice at the Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf found Bagenal's romantic life "a source of endless fascination" (Bell, p. 50). She was at the centre of a love triangle involving Saxon Sidney-Turner and Nick Bagenal, marrying the latter in 1918. Woolf gossiped to Vanessa Bell about Bagenal's love triangle in 1918: "think of the three of them discussing the question over the stove in her studio and Nick saying 'No, Saxon: you must marry her;' and Saxon refusing to be happy save in their happiness, and Barbara suggesting copulation with each on alternate nights" (II, p. 214). In the 1910s, Bagenal camped on the lawn outside Bell's Charleston home and broke into Woolf's empty Asham home for a night of gallivanting with David Garnett and Dora Carrington. The Woolfs hired Bagenal at the Hogarth Press in late 1917 to succeed their first apprentice, Alix Sargant-Florence, who lasted a single day. "Virginia had plenty of opportunity for getting to know Barbara fairly well" while her apprentice worked on the typesetting for Katherine Mansfield's Prelude (1918). Bagenal "and her friend Carrington, both ex-Slade students, with their bobbed hair and thick fringes, their free and independent ways... represented Virginia's archetypal Cropheads" (Bell, p. 49). Bagenal later became a devoted companion of Clive Bell during the last two decades of his life. Bagenal's First edition, first impression, from the library of Barbara Hiles Bagenal, a Bloomsburyite and former apprentice at the Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf found Bagenal's romantic life "a source of endless fascination" (Bell, p. 50). She was at the centre of a love triangle involving Saxon Sidney-Turner and Nick Bagenal, marrying the latter in 1918. Woolf gossiped to Vanessa Bell about Bagenal's love triangle in 1918: "think of the three of them discussing the question over the stove in her studio and Nick saying 'No, Saxon: you must marry her;' and Saxon refusing to be happy save in their happiness, and Barbara suggesting copulation with each on alternate nights" (II, p. 214). In the 1910s, Bagenal camped on the lawn outside Bell's Charleston home and broke into Woolf's empty Asham home for a night of gallivanting with David Garnett and Dora Carrington. The Woolfs hired Bagenal at the Hogarth Press in late 1917 to succeed their first apprentice, Alix Sargant-Florence, who lasted a single day. "Virginia had plenty of opportunity for getting to know Barbara fairly well" while her apprentice worked on the typesetting for Katherine Mansfield's Prelude (1918). Bagenal "and her friend Carrington, both ex-Slade students, with their bobbed hair and thick fringes, their free and independent ways... represented Virginia's archetypal Cropheads" (Bell, p. 49). Bagenal later became a devoted companion of Clive Bell during the last two decades of his life. Bagenal's ownership inscription on the front free endpaper is dated May 1927, the same month as publication. READ MORE Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge yellow. Spine toned, small wear to spine head, light rubbing and marks to cloth, foxing to contents. A very good copy. Connolly, The Modern Movement 54; Kirkpatrick A10; Woolmer 154.