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First edition, first impression. While drafting the work, Woolf commented in her diary that "I think the design is more remarkable than in any of my books... I feel I can use up everything I've ever thought" (15 October 1923). Kirkpatrick notes that around 2,000 copies were printed. "Woolf maintained that her generation had to break the mould of the novel in order to speak of the radically changed world around them [and] Mrs. Dalloway did break the mould... It established her as a powerful force in the British Modernist literary scene" (Miller, Masterpieces of British Modernism, p. 153). Octavo (185 x 125 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, plain burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt. Some occasional light spotting, an excellent copy finely bound. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82.

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.