Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

JUST AS VIRGINIA WOOLF was aware of differences among readers, so she was aware of differences among libraries. In “Hours in a Library” (1916), an essay whose title she borrowed from a collection of her father Leslie Stephen’s periodical criticism (1874), she distinguishes between people who read because they love learning and people who read because they love reading. Although the dichotomy is a loose one, her lover of learning is more likely to be a sedentary specialist who reads “on a system” in search of “some particular grain of truth.” Woolf’s lover of reading, whom she calls a “true reader,” is often younger and motivated by “intense curiosity” and open-mindedness. Prone to raids on libraries and secondhand bookstores, a true reader’s reading is like taking “brisk exercise in the open air,” not like sitting in a “sheltered study” (E2 55-7). Although true readers retain knowledge of the literary tradition, with maturity they move adventurously from past to contemporary writers, and thus from secondhand bookstores to shops that stock new publications (E2 59).

When Virginia Woolf considers reading in libraries, however, she adds gender to her distinction between types of readers. Institutional libraries, like those of the great English universities, are traditional, protected places designed mainly for the sedentary specialists of her description. A woman may love learning, but her access to such libraries is limited by her sex—as the female narrator discovers in A Room of One’s Own (7-8). She may need not only her own private space and sufficient income, but also her own library (Miletic-Vejzovic 4-5). Access to these three necessities—privacy, money, and books—symbolizes and fosters intellectual independence, a woman’s ability to say what she thinks. Although, as Woolf documents in an endnote to Three Guineas (1938), “women were apparently excluded from the British Museum Reading-Room in the eighteenth century” (174 n. 6), the early twentieth-century narrator in A Room of One’s Own goes there unimpeded. Pursuing her research, she is thwarted not by library rules or officials, but by a paucity of information on women and literature. Wryly she contrasts her own frustrated search for truth about women’s poverty with the “grunts of satisfaction” of a sedentary specialist nearby, a man who, trained at Oxbridge, seems to find “pure nuggets” of truth “every ten minutes or so” (28). In the very same British Library Reading Room, Woolf’s Julia Hedge, “the feminist” character in Jacob’s Room (1922), waits for her books and observes that all around the dome are “the names of great men…‘why didn’t they leave room for an Eliot or a Bronte?’” she wonders (JR 106). In both A Room of One’s Own and Jacob’s Room, as Anne Fernald notes, the British Library Reading Room dome is imaged as a “great cultural mind” that is masculine, just another “part of the factory of London” that ignores the individual (106-8). Women might read in the British Library, but its catalogue, available books, and architecture remind them constantly that they live in, and read about, a patriarchy.

Virginia Woolf also worked at the London Library, a private subscription collection founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle. Leonard Woolf recalls that she “used it much and was once found to have about 50 books unreturned” (L 501). She continued to use it even after 1935 when she was infuriated by E. M. Forster’s implication that he would have proposed her for the library board had its members not concluded, because of one previous female member (ironically during her father Leslie Stephen’s tenure as president), that “ladies are quite impossible” (D 4 297, D 5 278). Woolf’s relationships with libraries, therefore, often suggest a need for more accessible, egalitarian collections governed by, as well as open to, women readers. No doubt the ambiguities of her own long-standing use of libraries, combined with their lack of respect for and information about women and their work, culminated in her decision in 1938 to lend her name to an endowment fund appeal for the Millicent Fawcett (Marsham Street) library, “the oldest and largest research resource in Britain devoted entirely to the study of women and their achievements” (Pankhurst 1). Woolf used the Fawcett library resources herself when she was doing research for Three Guineas. She sent questions to librarian Vera Douie as well as corresponded with her about the library’s needs and about books written by women that she proposed to buy for the Fawcett collection (Pawlowski). Both she and Leonard sent letters to a number of women asking for their support (Snaith).

Responding to some of the replies, Virginia Woolf continues the discussion of libraries suitable for women readers, especially curious and open-minded lovers of reading. She tells Ethel Smyth, for instance, in a letter written a day before the publication of Three Guineas (1938), that the Marsham Street Library is “almost the only satisfactory deposit for stray guineas, because half the readers are bookless at home, working all day, eager to know anything and everything, and a very nice room, with a fire even, and a chair or two, is provided” (L6 232). These kinds of avid, unspecialized readers not only need a library, but they also need a comfortable one in which they feel welcome. “I owe all the education I ever had to my father’s library,” Virginia Woolf writes to another potential subscriber, “and so perhaps endow libraries with more divinity than I should” (L6 234). “But books have always been so prolific in my life,” she tells yet another correspondent, “that I can’t help being shocked to think that there are those who go without” (L6 236). Indeed, Virginia Woolf actually owned many of the books her narrator in A Room of One’s Own consults in the British Library (Luedeking 2). She knew she did not have to risk, so often as most women, “wetting her pen in bitterness” (JR 106) while reading in an inhospitable setting.

The Genealogy of the Woolfs’ Personal Library

Many books owned by Leonard and Virginia Woolf were accumulated well before either was born. It is a combined collection of many decades, with a wide variety of volumes added by numerous people at many different times. These books—with their dedications, bookplates, signatures, inscriptions, and annotations—are like fragments of conversations. They define institutional, intellectual, and emotional networks of relationships among contemporaries as well as among people of different generations.

Virginia Stephen was born in 1882 into a prominent intellectual family of evangelical philanthropists, imperialists, academics, and judges. Her father Leslie Stephen owned, before his daughter inherited them, books written and inscribed to him by his father, Sir James Stephen, among them Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography. Leslie, in turn, inscribed books to his young daughter Virginia, like J. G. Lockhart’s Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott (Miletic-Vejzovic 9, 5) and The Complete Poetical Works (1896) of James Russell Lowell, her godfather. As biographers have established, and as she herself has acknowledged, Virginia Stephen had the run of her father’s personal library. Upon his death in 1904, she inherited his books, more than 1,000 volumes of which remain in the library today (Daugherty 10). Her sister Vanessa moved them to their new home at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, while Virginia recovered from a mental breakdown at Caroline Amelia Stephen’s home in Cambridge. This aunt’s Quaker Strongholds (1891), inscribed by the author to her niece, is still in the Woolfs’ library. “Certainly books are wonderful things,” Vanessa wrote to Virginia. “Even I—though you may hook your learned nose at me in disdain—after spending some time grubbing amongst them, get to feel a great affection for the scrubbiest and most backless volume. I suppose it’s from living in a book-loving family. I feel happy and content sitting on the floor in an ocean of calf” (Bell 21).

Among the books Vanessa moved were ones Leslie Stephen wrote himself—on mountaineering and on English philosophy and literature—as well as his sixty-three annotated volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography (of which he had edited the first twenty-six). Leslie Stephen’s collection included works by William Makepeace Thackeray (his father-in-law by his first marriage), as well as by his friends Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and George Meredith. Leslie Stephen’s library, Beth Daugherty concludes, is “a humanities curriculum in history and political science, philosophy and religion, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.” She adds, however, that it is a curriculum short on women writers (14). Leslie Stephen did own twenty-four volumes of The Works of George Eliot, as well as a gift copy of The Spanish Gypsy, and he wrote a volume on Eliot for the English Men of Letters Series (Annan 111). A few women writers of the family, in addition to Caroline Emelia Stephen, are also represented among Leslie’s remaining books. For instance, ten books are authored by Leslie’s first wife’s sister, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, one of which is inscribed to him by the author, plus her collected works in eight volumes. Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh (1873) is also there, inscribed by Robert Browning to Laura Makepeace Stephen (Leslie and Minnie Thackeray’s daughter), most of the volumes in the Woolf library by women writers were added later. Even though his library’s contents were skewed toward masculine points of view, Leslie Stephen made no attempt to confine his daughter to books deemed appropriate for a young woman with a feminine social role to learn. Virginia’s reading, which began with lists her father provided, evolved into reading whatever she liked and making up her own mind about it. Not through conversations experienced among young university men, as Daugherty points out, but through inscriptions to her father and through his own marginalia, Virginia Stephen learned the meaning of membership in “a literary community at work” (14-16).

Through her father, Virginia Stephen also inherited books her mother Julia Stephen had owned. Virginia’s maternal grandfather, John Jackson, was a doctor in India when Julia was born. Perhaps more prominently, however, the family’s associations, through Julia’s mother Maria Jackson (nee Pattle), were with politicians and especially with artists. Frequenting Little Holland House and Freshwater, the homes of Maria Jackson’s sisters, were important statesmen, writers, painters, and sculptors, among them Gladstone and Disraeli; Tennyson and Thackeray, G. F. Watts, Holman Hunt, and Edward Burne-Jones. “In this environment, Julia grew up, loved and admired, proposed to, painted, and photographed” (Gillespie, “The Elusive” 4-5). Julia married Herbert Duckworth, whom Leslie Stephen later called a “perfect type of public school man” (Stephen, L. 35), who died suddenly prior to the birth of their third child. Duckworth’s books, among them copies of Ovid, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Herrick, Thomas Moore, a book on English universities, one on the Highlands, a New Testament, a novel by J. M. Barrie, and a travel book by Alexander Kinglake, all came into Virginia Woolf’s hands—along with a copy of Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (1855)—from her mother through her father (Gillespie, “The Elusive,” 260 n. 15).

In the Dictionary of National Biography is Julia Stephen’s entry on her aunt, the pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Although Julia also published Notes From Sick Rooms (Smith Elder, 1883), she exists among the books Virginia inherited primarily through the volumes she owned. Books expressing conventional sentiments about a woman’s role and religion, like Coventry Patmore’s Amelia, Tamerton Church-Tower (1878), are inscribed to Julia by her mother Maria Jackson. When Virginia Woolf wrote in “Professions for Women” of the woman writer’s need to kill the feminine stereotype that forbade criticism of masculine values, she had on her shelves Patmore’s The Angel in the House, inscribed to her mother by the author (Gillespie, “The Elusive,” 10-11, 260 n. 19-22). Among the books Virginia Stephen inherited, Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s are so well represented, more perhaps because she was a friend of Julia’s than because she was Leslie’s sister-in-law. Ritchie dedicated Miss Angel, about the painter Angelica Kauffmann, to “Mrs. Herbert Duckworth” and inscribed books to Julia and Leslie’s children by their first marriages and, after their marriage, to their first child. James Russell Lowell admiringly inscribed books to Julia, as did George Meredith and Henry James (Gillespie, “The Elusive,” 7-8, 260 n. 16; 12, 261 n. 29; 14-15, 262 n. 36).

After their marriage, Leslie and Julia Stephen had four more children, each of whom began receiving and then giving books. Virginia thus inherited books given to various Stephen siblings, among them her brother Thoby, whose gifts or school-prize books, like Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1897), came to her upon his premature death in 1906. Early gifts to Virginia herself, inscribed to her not only by her father but also by other family members and friends like Vanessa and Thoby Stephen, Violet Dickinson, and Madge Vaughan, are also among the books remaining in the Leonard and Virginia Woolf Library.

Virginia Stephen’s books were an appropriate intellectual dowry when she married Leonard Woolf on August 10, 1912. With a background very different from Virginia’s, Leonard was born in London in 1880 to the son of a Jewish “tailor who had done extremely well in his trade,” who, by the time of his death, defined himself as a “gentleman” and who “educated his [seven] sons out of their class” (Woolf, L. Sowing 13-14). His mother’s Jewish family came from Holland, and his prosperous maternal grandfather was a diamond merchant whose ten children pretty much “drained away” their father’s wealth (Woolf, L. Sowing 16). Leonard’s father, Sidney Woolf, was an intelligent, hard-working, and successful barrister and Q. C. He died at age forty-seven, leaving his widow with nine children and a much-reduced income, which she managed with considerable common sense. Leonard’s education at St. Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge, was in the classics, with additional interests in philosophy and literature. An avid reader with access to libraries, Leonard amassed and contributed his own books to what became Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s joint collection. Some of Leonard’s books duplicated ones Virginia already had, and two or more different editions remain in their combined library. Virginia’s bookplate appears, for instance, in the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Rev. Walter W. Skeat (1901), and Leonard Woolf has signed the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Alfred W. Pollard, et. al. (1898). Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, 8th edition (1676), is inscribed to Virginia by Violet Dickinson and The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by A. R. Shilleto (1893), is signed by Leonard. Both had editions of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Virginia’s twelve-volume 1820 edition was given her by her brother Adrian; Leonard’s is a two-volume 1898 edition. Some books, reflecting Leonard’s reading at Cambridge, range from canonical playwrights like Shakespeare to contemporaries like Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen, and from novelists like Henry Fielding to George Meredith (Woolf, L. Sowing 162-71). Because of his seven years as a colonial administrator in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the combined library contains many books belonging both to Leonard and to his sister Bella Sidney Woolf on that country. The 1784, seventy-volume edition of the complete works of Voltaire which Leonard had taken with him to Ceylon (Woolf, L., Letters, 107 n. 1), remains in the combined Woolf library. Leonard’s developing political interests also are reflected in many books on English imperialism, Fabian and Labor Party politics, and international government. Books on Judaism, and Bibles (mostly Old Testaments) were also likely contributed by Leonard (Miletic-Vejzovic 18). There is, however, a Holy Bible inscribed to Virginia Woolf by Violet Dickinson, one inscribed to her by Leonard, and two Greek New Testaments, one owned by Leonard and annotated by Virginia. Leonard’s other interests, some—such as gardening, birds, and butterflies—shared with Virginia, also are well represented.

According to his, her, and their joint interests and writing or research commitments, the Woolfs continued to add numerous books after their marriage. These included ones they authored, as they were published; review and signed copies of books published by their acquaintances and friends; as well as gift copies given to Leonard or Virginia by various people. Virginia, for instance, received books as presents from many people, including Maynard Keynes, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry, and Ethel Smyth. The Woolfs also kept books loaned or given to them but signed by and apparently belonging to friends and family members, among them Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Julian Bell, Vanessa Bell, Boris Anrep, and Roger Fry. One result is a library strong in English literature, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century; with some twentieth-century literature, including selected American works; with a strong showing of French literature from Molière to Proust; and with good representation of Russian literature in translation. The Woolfs’ shared interest in Russian literature is evidenced by Leonard’s gift of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1912) to Virginia and Virginia’s gifts of The Idiot (1913) and The Insulted and the Injured (1915) to Leonard as Constance Garnett’s translations appeared in the second decade of the twentieth century. Philosophical, psychoanalytical, and aesthetic studies are represented along with practical books on cooking and, predictably, on book printing and production (Miletic-Vejzovic 17). An interest in travel is reflected in many books, including fifteen volumes of Karl Baedeker’s travel guides, as well as a box that includes maps of Ceylon, street maps of London, and numerous road maps (showing various degrees of use and dated, in some cases, after Virginia Woolf’s death) to many parts of the British Isles and Europe.

Some books came with fascinating inserts. One example is a handwritten poem entitled “To V. S. with a Book” that Clive Bell inserted in his gift to Virginia Stephen of John Vanbrugh’s plays (1776). “Books are the quiet monitors of mind,” begins the first stanza, and the second and third reinforce the importance of books as “the mind’s last symbol” and “the heart’s memorial.” The second stanza, exalting the writer’s art, reads,

Books are the mind’s last symbol. They express

Its visions and its subtleties—a dress

Material for the immaterial things

That soar to immortality on wings

Of words, and live, by magic of the pen,

Where dead minds live, upon the lips of men

And deep in hearts that stir. Wherefore do I,

Drawing a little near, prophetically,

Send you a book.

A later example is a typed letter from Virginia Woolf, dated 10 December 1930 and inserted in the cover of “On Being Ill.” Addressing someone who had complained about the quality of the Hogarth Press’s printing of the essay-volume, Woolf agrees with the criticisms. She explains, however, that the essay was printed in a basement by uninstructed amateurs for whom such activity is a hobby. “In spite of all this,” she adds, “I believe that you can already sell your copy for more than the guinea you gave, as the edition is largely over subscribed, so that though we have not satsified [sic] your taste, we hope that we have not robbed your purse.”

The Woolfs’ Library at Washington State University

On the surface, it seems ironic that the bulk of the personal library owned by Leonard and Virginia Woolf is now housed within an institutional library, in Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (MASC), in the new addition of the Holland Library, Washington State University (WSU), in Pullman on the state’s rural eastern side. WSU, however, founded in the late nineteenth century, is no 3,000-year-old Oxbridge. It was actually the other, slightly older, University of Washington (UW), located on the more urban, western side in Seattle, that “usurped the ivy-draped, Oxbridge image” (Stimson 27). WSU, says one of its historians, had an entirely different atmosphere from “that of the more typical patrician and cliquish, turn-of-the-century institutions of higher learning” elsewhere (Stimson 17).

WSU is a product of the Morrill Act, passed by the U.S. government in 1862, which “gave each state a grant of land to support tuition-free college for ‘the industrial classes.’” The state of Washington, established in 1889, claimed land under this act and, in 1892, admitted the first students to a coeducational, tuition-free institution initially called the Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Washington (or Washington Agricultural College) in Pullman. The original students studied “chemistry, American and European history, mathematics (trigonometry was mandatory), English literature, and two foreign languages”—all required whatever their majors (Stimson 14-15). West-side legislators as well as the UW objected, however, to a college “that proposed to teach foreign languages and mathematics to farm kids” (Stimson 6-7, 29, Frykman 1, 273 n. 1). Since students in other fields actually outnumbered those in agriculture, the college changed its name in 1905 to the State College of Washington, although it retained its agricultural research and teaching mission (Stimson 17). By the 1950s, the Faculty Executive Committee persuaded state legislators that the institution deserved to be called a university. Universities, everyone agreed, were “comprehensive teaching and research institutions offering degrees ranging from bachelors to doctorates of philosophy in various subjects” (Frykman 185). In 1959, therefore, the State College of Washington became Washington State University.

The combination of an egalitarian tradition and an identity as a research institution makes WSU an appropriate institutional venue for the Leonard and Virginia Woolf Library. WSU’s history, in fact, reminds us that for three years, beginning in 1905, Virginia Stephen taught a weekly class in English literature and history at Morley College, an evening institute for working people, and that Leonard Woolf was involved with, and published on, the economic and political movements that affected workers and consumers. Nor is the new addition to Holland Library like the British Museum Reading Room with the names of famous men ranged around the dome, or its U.S. equivalent, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The dome over the central atrium in the new addition (added in 1994 to the 1950 Holland Library building) is conical and made entirely of glass. Light pours in, and everyone is free to walk below it through the glass doors into Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, where the Woolfs’ books are housed.

How the Woolfs’ library came to rest in the western United States, so far away from Rodmell and London, requires some explanation. The descriptions of the dispersion of the Woolfs’ books following Leonard’s death in 1969 are a bit murky. Clearly, though, it was through the efforts of John Elwood, then chair of the English department, that the Woolfs’ books came to the WSU Library’s attention. Elwood’s brief account in Virginia Woolf Miscellany of the books’ acquisition differs somewhat from George Spater’s overview in the Virginia Woolf Quarterly of their distribution and sales from Monks House. When John and Karen Elwood visited Sussex in 1967, Fred Lucas, owner at that time of the Bow Windows Book Shop in Lewes, introduced them to Leonard Woolf, still living in nearby Rodmell. John Elwood observed on several occasions that Leonard’s library was in disarray, many volumes having been “stacked in the sun on landings” (1). Similarly George Spater noted books on both shelves and floors where they were “allowed to accumulate dust, spider webs and defunct spiders” (61). After Leonard Woolf’s death in 1969, Mrs. Ian (Trekkie) Parsons, his executor, gave copies of books Virginia Woolf herself had written, including some translations into foreign languages from her room at Monks House, to Sussex University Library, along with copies of many books Leonard had written, manuscript materials belonging to both Woolfs, and considerable correspondence (Spater 61).

According to Spater’s outline of what happened to the rest of the Monks House books, two lots were sold at Sotheby’s in April and July of 1970. Most of the first lot, largely signed presentation copies by twentieth-century writers, was bought by the Henry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. The second lot, mostly first editions of earlier works, went to individual bidders, the highest prices being paid for The Origin of Species, inscribed to Leslie Stephen by the author, a book containing John Donne’s notes and signature, nine first editions of Peacock, and a copy of Pope’s An Essay on Man bound “in one volume with first editions of other eighteenth-century works” formerly owned by Leslie Stephen (Spater 62-3). Elwood refers to WSU’s authorization of Fred Lucas to bid on “the approximately 300 books selected to be auctioned at Sotheby’s” of which “we managed to get over thirty” (1).

According to Elwood, however, this transaction followed a much larger initial purchase. A casual communication from Nancy Lucas to the Elwoods in 1971 indicated that Fred Lucas was looking for a buyer for the Monks House books (1). These would be “several thousand more volumes” that, according to Spater, were “sold as a lot to George Holleyman of Holleyman & Treacher, booksellers of Brighton.” These comprised several thousand “important and association” Monks House books, including first editions and presentation copies of well-known, mostly British nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers. WSU bought these through a London bookseller, Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. The Bow Windows Book Shop in Lewes, owned by Wm. Dawson & Sons, bought “several thousand more volumes” of the Monks House books. Spater thinks this lot “is similar in range to that purchased by George Holleyman,” but that it “contained, in addition, the important collection of books on Ceylon” belonging to Leonard (63). A conversation between John Elwood and G. Donald Smith, director of Libraries at the time, authorized WSU to bid on what may have been both lots of books owned, directly or through the Bow Windows subsidiary, by Wm. Dawson & Sons.

When Virginia Woolf died in 1941, all of the Woolfs’ books were at Monks House in Rodmell, the London residence at 37 Mecklenburgh Square having been damaged by the World War II bombings. After Virginia’s death, Leonard rented 24 Victoria Square and moved many books back to London, keeping his library (including sets like the Voltaire and the Waverly novels) divided until his death. In 1972 Holleyman and Treacher catalogued and offered for sale the Victoria Square Library. As no one else seemed interested enough in these books either, WSU was able to purchase them and thus to acquire “a larger proportion of volumes associated with Leslie Stephen,” books given as gifts to Virginia, books rebound by her, and books with various bookplates (Spater 64). Spater indicates his relief that there would be no “further fragmentation” now that “the bulk of the Woolf books [are] back under a single ownership—something for which scholars should be eternally grateful” (65).

The Woolfs’ library at WSU is not complete, but it represents a substantial portion—more than 4,000 titles (approximately 6,000 volumes, given the multivolume sets) that Leonard and Virginia Woolf inherited, bought, were given, and published. Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections has since purchased additional books known to have been in the Woolfs’ library. These include most of the actual Hogarth Press publications, only a few of which came with the initial library purchases. In 1974, MASC purchased from Trekkie Parsons, who had inherited them from Leonard, a collection of 1917–1941 Hogarth Press publications. Those complete, MASC has collected the 1941–46 titles. In 1979, MASC purchased about four hundred books from Leonard’s nephew, Cecil Woolf, who had bought them from his uncle over the years. In 1983, MASC purchased another hundred books from Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf’s nephew (Miletic-Vejzovic 7-8) and, more recently, additional books that came into the hands of dealers.

When the Woolfs’ books arrived at WSU in 1971, they were unpacked with great excitement by library staff Leila Luedeking and Anne Wierum, with help from Karen Elwood and others. Originally the books were shelved in a fourth-floor room of Holland Library’s west wing. Although the books were noncirculating, scholars visiting the collection could get a sense of the Woolf library as a whole. In 1978, however, when the Humanities and Special Collections division was combined with Manuscripts-Archives under one administration, the Woolf library was dispersed and catalogued, according to the Library of Congress system, among the other books in what is now Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. Although the dispersal satisfies those whose concerns are security as well as consistency with other MASC collections, the move has caused some concern among users and potential users who would prefer a supervised browsing among the Woolfs’ books (e.g., Bishop). MASC would like to reassemble the Woolfs’ books in one place. Meanwhile, the knowledgeable staff continues to be helpful in answering mail, e-mail, and telephone inquiries as well as pulling many books and other materials for on-site reader use. This short-title catalogue facilitates some of the preliminary browsing currently difficult to do on-site. The printed short-title catalogue (in combination with the online version) also makes the Woolf library more accessible to those reluctant to travel to this noncirculating collection without surveying, in a preliminary way, what they might find there. This catalogue renders obsolete the incomplete, inaccurate, and scarce “Important and Association Books from the Library of Virginia and Leonard Woolf” at Monks House (10 copies, 1970) and “Books from the Library of the late Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 24, Victoria Square, Westminster, London, S.W. 1” (12 copies, 1972), compiled by Holleyman and Treacher.

There is no substitute, however, for handling the books themselves. I remember how moved Nigel Nicholson was on his visit in 1979 when he held in his hands Virginia Woolf’s copy of Agamemnon with the English words she had pencilled in over the Greek. I frequently have witnessed the curiosity and awe of undergraduate and graduate students who see for the first time the rare, early hand-printed productions of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s newly founded Hogarth Press. As the appreciative, published user accounts indicate, the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf is available not only to sedentary, specialized readers whom Virginia Woolf would have associated with Oxbridge academic institutions, but also to interested students and general lovers of reading. Scholars and biographers may read, for example, Leslie Stephen’s marginalia and examine the droll drawings that provide insight into a different facet of a complex man (Hyman 3, Daugherty 10). Although the Woolfs were book users rather than book collectors, their books meant a lot to them. Readers in their library can factor into Virginia Woolf’s love of books her “largely unorthodox, or experimental and creative” efforts at bookbinding (Isaac 5). Over the years, she took most of her notes on what she read in sixty-seven reading notebooks, described and catalogued in Brenda Silver’s guide, but in some of her books, there are light marks in the margins or handwritten genealogies of characters. Leonard, on the other hand, kept indices in the back or marked passages in many books he read (Wilson 6, Miletic-Vajzovic 12). The Woolf library also gives readers access to many difficult-to-find, out-of-print works (Lee, L. 6). It enables scholars to learn what editions of specific books the Woolfs read and used (Hungerford 7), an increasingly important opportunity as editorial theory reveals the effects of editing, publishing, and marketing decisions on authors’ reputations and on readers’ responses. To look at the Woolfs’ books is to begin to access, as one graduate student has recorded, the lives of their minds (Brocato 7). Scholars, collectors, and artists alike appreciate the various bookplates—some heraldic reflections of family background, some designed by the Omega Workshop, some by Virginia Woolf herself (Barber, Gillespie, “More...”). Small press publishers and printers identify instantly with the production of Hogarth Press first editions (Bissinger 8).

The Woolf library in WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections has become the center of a larger collection of books and works by people associated with the Woolfs, initial Bloomsbury writers like Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, and Roger Fry; later associates like David Garnett, Vita Sackville-West, and Harold Nicolson; and other period writers like Edith Sitwell, Katherine Mansfield, and D. H. Lawrence. A few manuscripts have been added, like Julia Stephen’s story and essay manuscripts published by Gillespie and Steele and drafts of Roger Fry’s translations of Mallarme’s poems. There are some letters and papers of other writers and artists as well. MASC owns, in addition, a number of striking etchings, lithographs, and book illustrations by Duncan Grant and other Bloomsbury artists, as well as art exhibition catalogues ranging from the post-Impressionist exhibitions to more recent ones of Bloomsbury art. MASC has added books by and about Virginia Woolf’s family. It has also collected different editions, including some foreign language translations of Woolf’s books.

Most of us have books in our libraries that we have read only in part or not at all. The Woolfs were no exception. Gift books and review copies were, no doubt, sometimes unwelcome or uninteresting. Indeed, now and then one finds a volume with uncut pages. Other books are obviously well used, although one cannot always be certain by which generation of readers. Drawing conclusions from a list of books the Woolfs owned, therefore, requires caution and often a look at the book itself. On the other hand, as increasing numbers of lovers of learning and lovers of reading are discovering, the Woolf library is a rich resource, a legacy worth using and preserving from two of the most prolific and influential writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Elwood, John. “Early History of the Woolf Library.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 1.

Fernald, Anne E. “The Memory Palace of Virginia Woolf.” In Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance. Ed. Sally Greene. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. 89-114.

Frykman, George A. Creating the People’s University: Washington State University, 1890-1990. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1990.

Gillespie, Diane F. “The Elusive Julia Stephen.” Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults. Eds. Diane F. Gillespie and Elizabeth Steele. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987. 1-27.

_____. “More Bloomsbury Bookplates,” Charleston Newsletter 23 (June 1989), 28-37.

_____. “The WSU Woolf Library and Bloomsbury Collection: An Update.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 38 (Spring 1992), 8-9.

Gillespie, Diane F. and Elizabeth Steele, eds. Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Hungerford, Ed. “Another First Visit.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 7.

Hyman, Virginia R. “Hours in Their Library.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 3.

Isaac, Alan. Virginia Woolf, The Uncommon Bookbinder. London: Cecil Woolf, 1988.

Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Lee, L. L. “Of Leonard and Libraries.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 6.

Luedeking, Leila. “Contents of the Woolf Library.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 2.

Miletic-Vejzovic, Laila. A Library of One’s Own: The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. London: Cecil Woolf, 1997.

Pankhurst, Rita. “The Fawcett Library.” Reprint by the Fawcett Library from COPOL Newsletter 35 (December 1985). 1-4.

Pawlowski, Merry. “The Virginia Woolf and Vera Douie Letters: Woolf’s Connections to the Women’s Service [Fawcett] Library,” “Index to the Women’s Service Library Letters,” and “The Virginia Woolf and Vera Douie Letters.” Woolf Studies Annual 8 (2002). 3-62.

Silver, Brenda. Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Snaith, Anna. “‘Stray Guineas’: Woolf, Women Readers, and the Marsham Street Library.” Unpublished paper. Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. June 8-11, 2000. University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Spater, George A. “The Monks House Library.” Virginia Woolf Quarterly 1.3 (Spring 1973). 60-65.

Stephen, Leslie. Mausoleum Book. Ed. Alan Bell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Stimson, William L. Going to Washington State: A Century of Student Life. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1989.

Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Wilson, Duncan. Leonard Woolf: A Political Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978.

Wilson, J. J. “My First Visit to the Woolf Library and Bloomsbury Collection in Pullman.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984), 6.

Woolf, Leonard. Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 (first published 1961).

_____. Letters of Leonard Woolf. Ed. Frederic Spotts. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

_____. Sowing: An Autobiography of the Years 1880 to 1904. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 (first published 1960).

Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell. 5 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-84.

_____. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Ed. Andrew McNeillie. Vol. 2. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.

_____. Jacob’s Room. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1950.

_____. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Eds. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann.

6 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-80.

Abayaratna, D. H. S. Siniyam sahita jinarajamsaya Sacan Gotamabuda caritaya. [The Life of Guthama Buddha]. Colombo: Vidyadarsa Press, 1911. Spine: Jinarajawansa. Text in Sinhalese. Extra title page in English. LW—presentee.

_____, ed. The Sinhalese Mahawansa. Colombo: Fernando, 1922. Bella Woolf Southorn—presentee.

Abbott, Evelyn, and Lewis Campbell. Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford. 3d ed. London: Murray, 1897. 2 vols. LS—annotations.

Abbott, G. F. Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922. Pref. by Admiral Mark Kerr. London: Methuen, 1922.

_____. Thucydides: A Study in Historical Reality. London: Routledge, 1925.

_____. Turkey, Greece and the Great Powers: A Study in Friendship and Hate. London: R. Scott, 1916. LW—annotations. Review copy.

Abbott, Wilbur Cortez. The Expansion of Europe: A History of the Foundations of the Modern World. London: G. Bell, 1919. 2 vols. Review copy. LW—annotations.

Abercrombie, Lascelles, comp. New English Poems: A Miscellany of Contemporary Verse Never Before Published. 2d impression. London: V. Gollancz, 1931.

_____. Thomas Hardy, a Critical Study. New Ed. London: M. Secker, 1919. VW—spine label.

Abrams, Mark, and Richard Rose. Must Labour Lose? Commentary by Rita Hinden. A Penguin Special, S188. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.; Baltimore: Penguin, 1960.

Acland, Arthur Herbert Dyke, ed. A Guide to the Choice of Books for Students and General Readers. London: E. Stanford, 1891.

Acres, Wilfred Marston. London and Westminster in History & Literature. London: T. F. Unwin, 1923. LW—annotations.

Adair, E. R. The Exterritoriality of Ambassadors in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London; New York: Longman, Green, 1929. Review copy.

Adams, Henry. Democracy, an American Novel. London: Macmillan, 1882.

_____. The Education of Henry Adams. London: Constable, 1928. LW—annotations.

Adams, John. Educational Theories. Benn’s Sixpenny Library, no. 170. London: Benn, 1927.

Adams, Joseph Quincy, ed. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas: A Selection of Plays Illustrating the History of the English Drama. London: Harrap, 1925. Review copy.

Adamson, Margot Robert. Up the Hill of Fairlight. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1925.

Addison, Joseph. Cato, a Tragedy. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750. Bound with plays by Lillo and Southern.

_____. The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourble [sic] Joseph Addison, Esq. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1752.

____. The Essays of Addison. Ed. by Russell Davis Gillman. London: G. Newnes; New York: Scribner, n. d.

____. Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., with Some Account of the Author by Mr. Tickell. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1746. 3 vols. Vol. 3, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, only.

____. Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c, in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1745.

____. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison. New ed. with notes by Richard Hurd. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811. 6 vols. Lacking vol. 3. LS—annotations, drawings.

____ , and Richard Steele. Sir Roger de Coverley. Notes and illustrations by W. Henry Wills. Engravings by Thompson from designs by Fred. Taylor. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1854. LS—annotations. Herbert Duckworth—bookplate.

____ , and Richard Steele. The Spectator. New ed. London; New York: Routledge, 1888. LW—signer.

Ades, Albert. Le livre de Goha le Simple. Pref. by Octave Mirbeau. Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1919. VW—binder.

Adinarayan, Samuel Pondipeddi. The Human Mind. London; New York: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1950. Review copy.

The Adventurer. London: Printed for J. Payne, 1752-54. Nos. 1-140, in 2 vols.

Aeschylus. Aeschylus ex novissima recensione Frederici A. Paley. London: G. Bell, 1874. LW—signer.

____. Agamemnon. Intro. and notes by A. Sidgwick. 3d ed., rev. Oxford: Clarendon, 1887. 2 parts in 1 vol. LW—signer. VW—annotations.

____. Aischylou Agamemnon = Aeschyli Agamemnon ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecti Carolus Jacobus Blomfield. 4th ed. London: B. Fellowes, 1832. Text in Greek; notes in Latin. Bound with other works by Aeschylus: Choephoroi; Persæ; Prometheus Vinctus; Septem Contra Thebes (below). VW—annotations.

____. Aischylou Choephori = Æschyli Choephoroe ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield. 2d ed. London: J. Mawman, 1827.

____. Aischylou Epta epi Thebas = Septem Contra Thebas: Ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecit. Ed. by Charles James Blomfield. 2d ed. Cambridge: J. Smith, 1817.

____. Aischylou Iketides = The “Supplices” of Aeschylus: A Revised Text with Introduction, Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation. Trans. and intro. by T. G. Tucker. London; New York: Macmillan, 1889.

____. Aischylou Persai = Aeschyli Persae ad fidem manuscriptorum. Ed. by Charles James Blomfield. 3d ed. London: J. Mawman, 1826.

____. Aischylou Prometheus desmotes = Aeschyli Prometheus vinctus: Ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjectic. Ed. by Charles James Blomfield. 5th ed. London: Fellowes, 1829.

____. Eschyle; traduction nouvelle. Trans. by Leconte de Lisle. Paris: A. Lemerre, [1889?]. VW—binder.

____. Eumenides. Intro. and notes by A. Sidgwick. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. LW—signer, annotations, and poem.

____. The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus. Trans., intro., and notes by Janet Case. London: Dent, 1905.

African Affairs. Ed. by Kenneth Kirkwood. St. Antony’s Papers, no. 15. London: Chatto & Windus, 1961- . No. 2 (1963) only.

African Education Commission, 1923-24. Education in East Africa: A Study of East, Central and South Africa. New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund; London: Edinburgh House, 1925. Review copy.

Agar, Herbert. Pursuit of Happiness: The Story of American Democracy. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939. LW—annotations.

Agate, James. Rachel. London: G. Howe, 1928.

Agenda. London: Poets’ and Painters’ Press, 1959- . Vol. 7, no. 2 (Spring 1969) only.

Agnew, Geoffrey. Agnew’s, 1817-1967. London: B. Agnew Press, 1967.

Agricultural Marketing in India: Report on the Marketing of Linseed in India. Marketing Series, no. 8. Delhi : Manager of Publications, 1938. Review copy.

Aiken, Conrad. Senlin: A Biography. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.

Aikin, William A. English Vowel-Sounds. Intro. by Robert Bridges; and Fowler, H. W. On “ing,” A Reply to Dr. Jespersen’s Paper. S.P.E. Tract, no. 26. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.

Ainslie, Douglas. Chosen Poems. Pref. by G. K. Chesterton. London: Hogarth Press, 1926.

Akenside, Mark. The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books. 5th ed. Printed for R. Dodsley, 1744. Bound with works by Baynard and Garth. VW—binder.

Aksakov, S. T. A Russian Gentleman. Trans. by J. D. Duff. World’s Classics, 241. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1923.

____. A Russian Schoolboy. Trans. by J. D. Duff. World’s Classics, 261. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1924. LW—signer.

Albu, Austen Harry, and Norman Hewett. The Anatomy of Private Industry. Fabian Research Series, no. 145. London: Fabian Publications, 1951.

____. Socialism and the Study of Man. Fabian Tract, no. 283. London: V. Gollancz, 1951.

Aldington, Richard, comp. and trans. A Book of ‘Characters’ from Theophrastus: Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton, John Earle, Thomas Fuller, and Other English Authors: Jean de la Bruyère, Vauvenargues, and Other French Authors. London: Routledge; New York: Dutton, 1924.

____. Death of a Hero, a Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.

____, comp. and trans. Fifty Romance Lyric Poems. New York: Gaige, 1928. The Author—signer.

Alemán, Mateo. Aventuras y vida de Guzman de Alfarache, atalya de la vida humana. Madrid: Moreno, 1829. LW—signer.

Aleksandr Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia. Once a Grand Duke. London: Cassell, 1932.

Alexander, Horace Gundry. Justice among Nations. Merttens Lecture on War and Peace, 1st. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.

Ali, Ahmed. Twilight in Delhi: A Novel. London: Hogarth Press, 1940.

All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal. Ed. by Charles Dickens. London: C. Whiting, 1859-95. 76 vols. Vol. 1 (1859), Vol. 3 (1860), and Vol. 5 (1861) only.

Allen, Reginald Clifford. Labour’s Future at Stake. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1932.

Allen, W. E. D. The Turks in Europe. Pref. by Brig.-Gen. H. Conyers Surtees. London: Murray, 1919. Review copy.

Allen, Walter Ernest, ed. Writers on Writing. London: Phoenix House, 1948. Includes quotations from three works by Virginia Woolf.

Allingham, Margery. Flowers for the Judge. Penguin Books, 459. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1950.

Allinson, Francesca. A Childhood, with Wood Engravings by Enid Marx. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.

Allison, John Maudridge Snowden. Monsieur Thiers. London: Allen & Unwin, 1932. LW—annotations.

Allott, Kenneth. Poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1938.

Allyn, Emily. Lords Versus Commons: A Century of Conflict and Compromise, 1830-1930. New York; London: Century, 1931. LW—annotations.

Almanach de Gotha: Annuaire genealogique, diplomatique et statistique. Gotha: J. Perthes, 1836. Harriet Marion Thackeray—presentee.

An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord… By Joseph Whitaker. London: L. Whitaker, 1869- . 1936 and 1938 issues only.

Alpine Club (London, England). Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Ed. by John Ball. London: Longman, Brown, et al., 1859. Includes clippings concerning Leslie Stephen pasted onto advertising pages. LS—signer.

____. Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Second Series. Ed. by Edward Shirley Kennedy. London: Longman, Brown, et al., 1862. Includes selections by Leslie Stephen. LS—annotations.

The Alpine Journal, Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club. London: Longmans, Green, et al., 1863- . Vols. 1-4 (Mar. 1863–Feb. 1870) only. Vol. 4 edited by Leslie Stephen. LS— signer, annotations.

Altick, Richard Daniel. The Scholar Adventurers. New York: Macmillan, 1960. LW—presentee. Donald J. Winslow—inscriber.

Alvin, Juliette. Musical Theory and Instrumental Technique: An Essay on the Relationship between the Rudiments of Music and the Technique of Musical Instruments. London: Augener, 1953.

Alwis, James de. See Vedeha, Thera. Sidath Sangarawa.

Amberley, John Russell, Viscount. The Amberley Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Lord and Lady Amberley. Ed. by Bertrand and Patricia Russell. London: Hogarth Press, 1937. 2 copies. Copy 2 is “cheap edition.” Alastair Forbes—signer.

Ambit. London: Camden Printing, 1959- . Nos. 30 and 31 only.

Amery, Julian. See Garvin, J. L. Life of Joseph Chamberlain.

Amery, L. S. Thought and Language. English Association Presidential Address, 1949. London: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Amiel, Henri Frédéric. Philine, Unpublished Fragments from the Journal of Amiel. Trans. by Van Wyck Brooks. Intro. by D. L. Murray. London: Constable, 1931.

Amory, Thomas. Life of John Buncle, Esq.: Containing Various Observations and Reflections Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary Relations. London: Printed for J. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1766. 2 vols. LS—signer, annotations.

Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Addresses and Discussions at the Conference on Scientific Management, Held October 12, 13, 14 Nineteen Hundred and Eleven. Hanover, N.H.: Amos Tuck School, 1912. LW—annotation.

Anacreon. Anacreon Done into English out of the Original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S. B. 1683. Illus. by Stephen Gooden. Soho, London: Nonesuch Press, 1923. LW—signer. Review copy.

Anand, Mulk Raj. Letters on India. Intro. by Leonard Woolf. London: Labour Book Service, 1942.

Ancient Monuments Society. Report and List [of Members]. London: The Society. 1961 issue only. LW listed as a Fellow under Sussex.

Ancient Monuments Society. Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society. London: The Society, 1953- . Vol. 14 (1967) and Vol. 15 (1967-68) only.

Andersen, Hans Christian. Stories & Fairytales, Volume II. Trans. by H. Oskar Sommer. Illus. by Arthur J. Gaskin. London: G. Allen, 1893.

André, Eugene. A Naturalist in the Guianas. Pref. by J. Scott Keltie. London; New York: Nelson, 1902.

Andreyev, Leonid. The Dark. Trans. by L. A. Magnus and K. Walter. Richmond, Eng.: Hogarth Press, 1922.

Angell, Norman. The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes. New York: Huebsch, 1919.

____. The Dangers of Half-preparedness: A Plea for a Declaration of American Policy: An Address. New York; London: Putnam’s, 1916. LW—annotations.

____. The Foundations of International Polity. London: Heinemann, 1914. Sidney Webb—signer.

____. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage. London: Heinemann, 1914.

____. Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road? London: Douglas, 1926. LW—annotations.

____. Must It Be War? London: Labour Book Service, [1939?].

____. The Political Conditions of Allied Success: A Plea for the Protective Union of Democracies. New York; London: Putnam’s, 1918. LW—annotations.

____. The Unseen Assassins. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1932. LW—annotations.

____. War Aims: The Need for a Parliament of the Allies. London: Headley, 1917. LW—annotations. Review copy.

Annuaire interparlementaire: La vie politique de constitutionelle des peuples, publiée sous le patronage de l’Union interparliamentaire. Paris: Delagrave, 1931- . 1931 issue only.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Ed. by A. C. Paues. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1923- . Vol. 8 (1927) only. Contains entries for LW and VW.

Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases, 1925-1926. Dept. of International Studies of the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London). London: Longmans, Green. Review copy. 6 vols. Vol. 3 (1929) only.

Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1758- . 1928 issue only.

Annunzio, Gabriele D’. See D’Annunzio, Gabriele.

Anson, William R. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in its Relation to Contract. 8th ed. London: H. Frowde and Stevens, 1898. W. T. Southorn—presentee.

Anstey, F. See Guthrie, F.

Anstey, John. The Pleader’s Guide: A Didactic Poem, in Two Books, Containing the Conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor Bother’um, and Counsellor Bore’um, in an Action Betwixt John-a-Gull, and John-a-Gudgeon for Assault and Battery, at a Late Contested Election. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796-1802. Bound with George Chalmers, The Life of Daniel De Foe and Apulieus, Cupid and Psyche.

Anthologie des poètes français depuis le xve siêcle jusqu’a nos jours. Paris: Lemerre, [1873?].

Anthology of World Poetry. Ed. by Mark Van Doren. London: Cassell, 1929. VW—annotations.

Anthonisz, Richard G. The Dutch in Ceylon: An Account of their Early Visits to the Island, their Conquests, and their Rule over the Maritime Regions during a Century and a Half: With an Appendix Containing the Diary Kept during their Occupation of Kandy in 1765. Colombo: C. A. C. Press, 1929. Bella Woolf Southorn—signer.

Anthony, Katherine Susan. Catherine the Great. London: Cape, 1926. LW—annotations.

Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union. The General Strike: The Story of a Great Folly. New Series, no. 105. London: Anti-Socialist & Anti-Communist Union, 1926. LW—annotations.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. T. C. [Theophilus Cibber], Comedian: Being a Proper Sequel to the Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian. London: Printed for J. Mechell, 1740. LS—signer.

Apuleius. Cupid and Psyche: A Mythological Tale from The Golden Ass of Apuleius. London: Wright, 1799. Bound with Chalmers, The Life of Daniel De Foe.

_____. The Golden Ass. Trans. by William Aldington. Ed. by George Sampson. London: Chiswick Press for G. Bell, 1904. VW—drawing.

[Arabian Nights]. Le Livre des mille nuits et une nuit: Traduction littérale et complète du texte arabe. Trans. by J. C. Mardrus. Paris: La Revue Blanche, 1900-1904. 16 vols. Vols. 1-8 only. VW—mender.

[Arabian Nights]. Le Livre des milles nuits et une nuit: Traduction littérale et complète du texte arabe. Trans. by J. C. Mardrus. Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1908-1912. 8 vols. Vol. 1 only. VW—presentee. Jacques Raverat—inscriber.

Arablay, Frances (Burney) d’. See Burney, Fanny.

Aragon, Louis. Le paysan de Paris. Paris: Gallimard, 1926.

Arber, Edward. An English Garner: Ingatherings from our History and Literature. London: E. Arber, 1877-1883. 7 vols. VW—binder.

Archer, William. The Thirteen Days July 23-August 4, 1914: A Chronicle and Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press; London; New York: H. Milford, 1915. Review copy.

Arion: Nemezetközi költöi almanach. [Almanach international de poesie]. Budapest: Corvina, 1966.

Aristophanes. The Acharnians. Intro., notes, and dialectical glossary by W. W. Merry. 5th ed. rev. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901. 2 parts in 1 vol. LW—signer, annotations.

____. Aristophanis Comodiae. Ed. by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902. Thoby Stephen—signer, annotations.

____. Aristophanous komoidiai = The Comedies of Aristophanes. Trans. and ed. by Benjamin Bickley Rogers. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1902-1916. 6 vols. Vol. 5 only. Clive Bell—signer.

____. The Knights. Intro. and notes by W. W. Merry. 2d ed. rev. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895. 2 parts in 1 vol. Thoby Stephen—signer, drawings, annotations.

____. A Metrical Version of the Acharnians, The Knights, and The Birds, with Occasional Comment. Comment by John Hookham Frere. Intro. by Henry Morley. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1895. Clive Bell—signer.

____. The Wasps. Intro. and notes by W. W. Merry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893. LW—signer.

____. The Wasps of Aristophanes: As Performed at Cambridge November 19-24, 1897, with the Verse Translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Cambridge: University Press, 1897. Clive Bell—signer.

Aristotle. Aristotelis De Coelo, et De generatione et corruptione. Ed. by Carl Prantl. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1881. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Artistotelis De republica libri octo. Ed. by Immanuel Bekker. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1878. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. Ed. by Franz Susemihl. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1887. LW has inscribed “A Garden Song” by Charles Isaac Elton. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Aristotelis Metaphysica. Ed. by W. Christ. New ed., corr. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1895. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Aristotelis Opera Omnia. Editio stereotypa. Leipzig: C. Tauchunitz, 1831-32. Text in Greek. 16 vols. in 6. Vol. 3 only. One bound vol. containing 3 titles: [Vol. 7] De Anima Libri III, 1831; [Vol. 8] Organi pars I: Categoriae, and [Vol. 9] Organi pars II: Analytica priora et posteriora, 1832. LW—signer.

_____. Aristotelis Physica. Ed. by Carl Prantl. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1879. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, with a Critical Text and Translation of the Poetics. See Butcher, S. H.

_____. The Ethics of Aristotle, Illustrated with Essays and Notes by Sir Alexander Grant. 4th ed., rev. London: Longmans, 1885. 2 vols. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. The Works of Aristotle Translated into English. Ed. by W. D. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908-52. 12 vols. Vols. 1, 7, 9, and 11 only.

Arlen, Michael. Young Men in Love. London: Hutchinson, 1927.

Armour, Richard Willard, and Raymond F. Howes, eds. Coleridge the Talker: A Series of Contemporary Descriptions and Comments with Critical Introduction. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; London: H. Milford, ©1940.

Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. Popular ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1901. LW—annotation.

____. Essays in Criticism. London; New York: Macmillan, 1905.

____. Essays in Criticism: Second Series. London; New York: Macmillan, 1906.

____, ed. Friendship’s Garland: Being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh. 2d ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1897.

____. Irish Essays and Others. Popular ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1891. LS—annotations.

____. Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. London: Smith, Elder, 1873. LS—presentee, annotations. The Author—inscriber.

____. Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. Popular ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1900.

____. On Translating Homer. Popular ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1896.

____. Poems. London: Macmillan, 1869. 2 vols. LS—drawing.

____. The Study of Celtic Literature. Popular ed. London: Smith, Elder, 1891. VW—bookplate.

Arnold, Percy. The Bankers of London. London: Hogarth Press, 1938.

Arnold-Forster, Mervyn. Poems and Occasional Verses. Edinburgh: Riverside Press, 1928.

Arnold-Forster, William. The Blockade 1914-1919: Before the Armistice—and after. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, no. 17. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939.

____. Charters of the Peace: A Commentary on the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration of Moscow, Cairo and Teheran. London: Gollancz, 1944. LW—annotation.

____. The Disarmament Conference. London: National Peace Council, 1931.

____. Shrubs for the Milder Counties. Foreword by Lord Aberconway. London: Country Life; New York: Scribner’s, 1948.

____. The Victory of Reason: A Pamphlet on Arbitration. London: Hogarth Press, 1926.

Arnot, Robert Page. William Morris, a Vindication. London: M. Lawrence, 1934.

Art and Letters. Ed. by Desmond MacCarthy. London: Art and Letters, 1917-20. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Spring 1919) only. VW—binder.

Art and Literature. Lausanne: Société anonyme d’éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1964-67. No. 4 (1965) only.

Artists of Bloomsbury. See Bagenal, Barbara.

Arts Council of Ceylon. Art & Architecture of Ceylon, Polonnaruva Period. Intro. by S. Paranavitana. Bombay: s. n., 1954. Presentation copy. The Editor of The New Lanka—presenter.

Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus 1545. Ed. by Edward Arber. Westminster: Constable, 1902. LW—annotations.

Aspinall-Oglander, Cecil. Nunwell Symphony. London: Hogarth Press, 1945.

_____. Nunwell Symphony. 2d impression. London: Hogarth Press, 1946.

Asquith, Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918. Foreword by L. P. Hartley. London: Hutchinson, 1968. LW—annotations.

Asquith, H. H. Some Phases of Free Thought in England in the Nineteenth Century: The Essex Hall Lecture, 1925. London: Lindsey Press, 1925.

Asquith, Margot. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin, 1937. 2 vols. VW—binder.

Astell, Mary. Reflections upon Marriage. 3d ed. London: R. Wilkin, 1706. VW—binder.

Atalanta. London: Hatchards, 1888-98. Vol. 2, nos. 1-12 (Oct. 1888-Sept. 1889), and Vol. 4, nos. 37-48 (Oct. 1890-Sept. 1891) only.

Atalanta’s Garland: Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union, 1926. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, 1926. “A Women’s College from the Outside,” by Virginia Woolf, p. 11-16.

The Athenaeum. London: J. Lection, 1830-1921. No. 4716 (Sept. 17, 1920) only.

Atkinson, George Francklin. “Curry & Rice,” on Forty Plates, or, the Ingredients of Social Life at “Our Station” in India. 5th ed. London: W. Thacker, 1911. W. T. and Bella Woolf Southorn—presentees. Sir James Mackenna—inscriber.

Atlantic Monthly. Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Co., 1857-1932. Vol. 161, no. 6 (June 1938) only. Includes part of “Women Must Weep,” by Virginia Woolf.

An Atlas of the War: 15 Maps with Explanatory Text. “Note” by J. N. L. Baker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939.

Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, and Other Select Writings. Ed. and intro. by Anthony Powell. London: Cresset Press, 1949.

Auden, W. H., and T. C. Worsley. Education, Today—and Tomorrow. Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 40. London: Hogarth Press, 1939.

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. The City of God. (De civitate Dei). Trans. by John Healey. Ed. by R. V. G. Tasker. Intro. by Sir Ernest Barker. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1945.

Aulard, François-Alphonse. Christianity and the French Revolution. Trans. by Lady Frazer. London: Benn, 1927.

Ault, Norman, ed. Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts. London; New York: Longmans, 1925.

Aurelius, Marcus [pseud.] See Padley, Walter Ernest.

Austen, Jane. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. Intro. by J. C. Squire. London: Heinemann, 1928.

____. Emma. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1906.

____. Five Letters from Jane Austen to her Niece Fanny Knight. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

____. Lady Susan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.

____. Mansfield Park. London: T. Nelson, [19—].

____. Pride and Prejudice. Ed. by R. Brimley Johnson. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1907.

____. Pride and Prejudice, a Novel. London; New York: Routledge, [186-]. LW—signer.

____. Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Two Volumes. Printed for London: T. Egerton, 1817. 2 vols. VW—presentee. John Maynard Keynes—inscriber.

____. Sense and Sensibility. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1906.

____. Two Chapters of Persuasion Printed from Jane Austen’s Autograph: With a Facsimile. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. 2 copies, one on handmade paper with facsimiles of J. Austen’s MS bound in.

____. Volume the First: Now First Printed from the MS in the Bodleian Library. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933. 2 copies. Review copy.

Austen-Leigh, James Edward. Memoir of Jane Austen. Ed. and intro. by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. Review copy.

Austen-Leigh, Mary Augusta. Personal Aspects of Jane Austen. London: J. Murray, 1920.

Austin, Alfred. The Garden that I Love. London; New York: Macmillan, 1894.

The Austrian Red Book: Official Files Pertaining to Pre-War History. London: Allen & Unwin, 1920.

The Author. London: Society of Authors, 1949- . Vol. 78, no. 2; Vol. 79, nos. 2-4; and Vol. 80, no. 2 only. Vol. 78, no. 2 lists Leonard Woolf’s Beginning Again as recipient of the 1965 W.H. Smith and Son Literary Award. Vol. 80, no. 2 has enclosure of the 84th Annual Report, which lists Leonard Woolf as a member of the council.

Avvakum, Protopope. The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. Trans. by Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees. London: Hogarth Press, 1924. 2 copies. LW—signer.

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, ed. The Ballads of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1858. 2 vols. Vol. 2 only.

Aziz, Khursheed Kamal. The Making of Palestine: A Study in Nationalism. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.

Babbitt, Irving. Democracy and Leadership. London: Constable, 1924. LW—annotations.

Babel, I. Red Cavalry. Trans. by John Harland. London: Knopf, 1929.

Bacon, Francis. Essayes, Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion & Disswasion. From the First Edition of 1597. London: F. Etchells and H. Macdonald, 1924. Review copy.

____. The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil: Whereunto is Added the Wisdom of the Antients. Trans. by Sir Arthur Gorges. London: M. Clark for Samuel Mearne, 1680.

____. The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon: Including all his Occasional Works, Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices, and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed among his Philosophcal, Literary, or Professional Works, Newly Collected and Set Forth in Chronological Order with a Commentary Biographical and Historical. Ed. by James Spedding. London: Longman, Green, 1861-74. 7 vols. LS—signer, drawings, annotations.

____. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1819. 10 vols. VW—binder. James Stephen, Jr.—bookplates. LW—annotations.

Baedeker, Karl. Austria, together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad. 12th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedecker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1929.

____. Greece: Handbook for Travellers. 4th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909.

____. Italy from the Alps to Naples: Abridged Handbook for Travellers. 3d rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1928.

____. Northern France, from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, Excluding Paris and its Environs: Handbook for Travellers. 3d ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1899. VW—signer.

____. Northern Germany, Excluding the Rhineland: Handbook for Travellers. 17th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1925.

____. Northern Italy, Including Ravenna, Florence, and Pisa: Handbook for Travellers. 15th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1930.

____. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark with Excursions to Iceland and Spitsbergen: Handbook for Travellers. 9th ed., rev. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1909. LW—signer.

____. Paris and its Environs, with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers. 14th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1900.

____. Paris and its Environs, with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers. 19th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1924.

____. The Rhine from the Dutch to the Alsatian Frontier: Handbook for Travellers. 18th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker; New York: C. Scribner’s, 1926.

____. Rome and Central Italy: Handbook for Travellers. 16th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1930.

____. Southern France Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers. 5th ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1907. LW—drawing, annotations.

____. Southern Germany (Baden, Black Forest, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria): Handbook for Travellers. 13th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1929.

____. Switzerland together with Chamounix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for Travellers. 27th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1928.

____. Tyrol and the Dolomites Including the Bavarian Alps: Handbook for Travellers. 13th rev. ed. Leipzig: K. Baedeker, etc., 1927.

Bagehot, Walter. Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen, a Series of Articles Reprinted by Permission Principally from The National Review. London: Chapman & Hall, 1858.

____. The Works of Walter Bagehot. Memoir by R.H. Hutton. Ed. by Forrest Morgan. Hartford, Connecticut: Travelers Insurance Company, 1891. 5 vols. LS—annotations, drawings.

Bagenal, Barbara, et al. Artists of Bloomsbury: Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. Rye, Sussex: Rye Art Gallery, 1967.

Bagenal, Nicolas Beauchamp, ed. Fruit Growing, Modern Cultural Methods. London; Melbourne: Ward, Lock, 1939.

Bailey, John Cann. A Question of Taste. English Association Pamphlet, no. 65. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926.

Bailey, John Eglington. The Life of Thomas Fuller, D. D., with Notices of his Books, his Kinsmen and his Friends. London: Pickering, 1874. LS—signer, annotations.

Bailey, Stanley Hartnol. The Anti-drug Campaign: An Experiment in International Control. London: P. S. King, 1935. Author acknowledges LW for making suggestions—cf. Preface.

____. The Framework of International Society. London: Longmans, 1932.

____. Mr. Roosevelt’s Experiments. Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 24. London: Hogarth Press, 1935.

Bailey, Sydney Dawson. Constitutions of the British Colonies: Information. Foreword by James Griffiths. Hansard Society Pamphlet, no. 9. London: Hansard Society, 1950. Review copy.

Baker, Philip J. Noel. See Noel-Baker, Philip J.

Baker, Ray Stannard. Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement. London: Heinemann, 1923. 3 vols. LW—annotations. Review copy.

Balfour, Graham, Sir. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Methuen, 1911.

Ball, John. See Alpine Club. Peaks, Passes and Glaciers.

Ball, John. The Western Alps. Ed. by W. A. B. Coolidge. New ed. The Alpine Guide, pt. 1. London; New York: Longmans, 1898.

Ball, Robert S. A Popular Guide to the Heavens: A Series of Eighty-Three Plates, with Explanatory Text & Index. 3d ed. London: G. Phillip, 1910.

Ballinger, William George. Race and Economics in South Africa. Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 21. London: Hogarth Press, 1934.

Balzac, Honoré de. Le Colonel Chabert; Honorine; L’interdiction. Paris: Calmann Lévy, [1905?]. LW—signer, annotations.

_____. Les contes drolatiques colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière pour l’esbattement des Pantagruelistes et non aultres. 6. éd., illustrée de 425 dessins par Gustave Doré. Paris: Garnier frères, 1861.

_____. Le curé de village. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1905. Cecil Sidney Woolf—signer.

_____. Illusions perdues. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1892. LW—presentee. Trinity College, Cambridge—presenter.

_____. La maison Nucingen; Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan; Les employés; Sarrazine; Facino Cane. Nouv. éd. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1887.

_____. Œuvres complètes. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1856-75. 45 vols. Lacking vol. 10. LS—signer. VW—binder.

_____. La peau de chagrin. Paris: Calmann Lévy, [1896?]. LW—signer. VW—binder.

_____. The Physiology of Marriage, or, Meditation of an Exlectic Philosopher on Happiness and Unhappiness in Marriage. Trans. and intro. by Francis Macnamara. London: Casanova Society, 1925. Review copy.

_____. Seraphita; Jésus-Christ en Flandre; Melmoth réconcilié; L’élixer de longue vie. Paris: Calmann Lévy, n. d.

_____. Splendeurs et misères de courtisanes. Paris: Calman Lévy, 1891. 2 vols.

Bancroft, Hester. Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1906.

Bandaranaike, Solomon Dias. Remembered Yesterdays: Being the Reminiscences of Maha Mudaliyar Sir Solomon Dias Bandarasaika, K.C.M.G. Intro. by Major Herbert Noyes. London: J. Murray, 1929. LW—inscriber. Bella Woolf Southorn—presentee.

Bannerman, Helen. The Story of Little White Squibba. London: Chatto & Windus, 1966.

Barber, Margaret Fairless. The Roadmender, by Michael Fairless [pseud.] London: Duckworth, 1902.

Barbier, E. J. F. Chronique de la Régence et du règne de Louis XV, (1718-1763), ou Journal de Barbier. Paris: Charpentier, 1857. 8 vols.

Barclay, Robert. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers. 8th ed. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1765. LS—signer, annotations. George Duckworth—signer.

Barclay, Thomas, Sir. New Methods of Adjusting International Disputes and the Future. London: Constable, 1917.

Baring, Maurice. Algae, an Anthology of Phrases. London: Heinemann, 1928.

_____. Cat’s Cradle. London: Heinemann, 1926. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Comfortless Memory. London: Heinemann, 1928. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Daphne Adeane. London: Heinemann, 1926. VW—signer.

_____. The Glass Mender and Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1926. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Lost Lectures, or the Fruits of Experience. 1st ed. London: P. Davies, 1932.

_____. Passing By. London: M. Secker, 1921. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Punch and Judy & Other Essays. London: Heinemann, 1924. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. The Puppet Show of Memory. New Impression. London: Heinemann, 1922. VW—signer.

_____. R.F.C., H.Q. 1914-1918. London: G. Bell, 1920. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Robert Peckham. London: Heinemann, 1930. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Translations, Ancient and Modern. London: Heinemann, 1925. VW—letter from author tipped in.

Barker, Ernest, Sir, ed. The Future Government of India and the Indian Civil Service. London: Methuen, 1919.

_____. National Character and the Factors in Its Formation. London: Methuen, 1927. LW—annotations.

_____. Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume and Rousseau. Intro. by Sir Ernest Barker. World’s Classics, 511. London: Oxford University Press, 1947.

_____. The Submerged Nationalities of the German Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915.

Barker, J. Ellis. Modern Germany: Its Rise, Growth, Downfall and Future. 6th ed., entirely re-written and enl. London: Murray, 1919.

Barker, Ralph. Ten Great Bowlers. Foreword by Alec Bedser. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.

Barker, Ronald E. The Days are Long. London: Cassell, 1959. Ian Parsons—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

Barnard, Marjorie Faith. Macquarie’s World. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1961.

Barnes, Leonard. The Duty of Empire. London: V. Gollancz, 1935. LW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Empire or Democracy?: A Study of the Colonial Question. London: V. Gollancz, 1939.

_____. The Future of Colonies. Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 32. London: Hogarth Press, 1936.

_____. The New Boer War. London: Hogarth Press, 1932.

_____. Skeleton of the Empire. Fact, a Monograph a Month, no. 3. London: Fact, Ltd., 1937.

Barnes, William. Select Poems of William Barnes. Ed., pref., and notes by Thomas Hardy. London: H. Frowde, 1908.

Barney, Natalie Clifford. Aventures de l’esprit. Paris: Émile-Paul frères, 1929.

Barrès, Maurice. Mes Cahiers. Intro. by Philippe Barrès. Paris: Plon, 1929, 1931. 14 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 only. VW—binder.

Barrie, J. M. George Meredith, 1909. London: Constable, 1909.

_____. The Little Minister. London: Cassell, 1892. George Duckworth—ink stamp.

Barron, Clarence Walker. The Mexican Problem. Intro. by Talcott Williams. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. Review copy.

Barrow, Reginald Haynes. Plutarch and His Times. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.

Bartholomew, J. G. The Citizen’s Atlas of the World: Containing 156 Pages of Maps and Plans, with an Index, a Gazetteer, and Geographical Statistics. Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew, 1912.

Bartholomew, John. Bartholomew’s Town Plan of London—Central Area. S. l.: s. n., n. d.

Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use. Author’s ed. London: G. Routledge, [1869?]. LS—signer.

Bartlett, Vernon. Introduction to Italy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.

Bateman, Josiah. The Life of the Rev. Henry Venn Elliott, M.A.: Perpetual Curate of St. Mary’s, Brighton, and Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. London: Macmillan, 1868. Review copy.

Bates, Jean Victor. Our Allies and Enemies in the Near East. Intro. by Sir Edward Carson. London: Chapman and Hall, 1918. LW—annotations.

Baudelaire, Charles. Les fleurs du mal. Nouv. éd. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1890. LW—signer.

Bauman, Heinrich. German in 30 Lessons. 16th ed. London: Linguaphone Institute, 1926.

Bayley, John. Tolstoy and the Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1966.

_____. Tolstoy and the Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1968.

Baynard, Edward. Health: A Poem: Shewing How to Procure, Preserve, and Restore it, to which is Annex’d The Doctors’s Decade. 8th ed., corr. London: J. Roberts, 1749.

Bazin, René. La terre qui meurt: Roman. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1909.

Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli. See Disraeli, Benjamin.

Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. Beaumont & Fletcher. Ed. and intro. by J. St. Loe Strachey. Mermaid Series: The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. London: Unwin; New York: Scribner’s, [1887?]. 2 vols. Vol. 1 only. LW—signer.

_____. Beaumont & Fletcher. Unexpurgated version. Ed. and intro. by J. St. Loe Strachey. Mermaid Series: The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. London: Vizetelly, 1887. 2 vols.

_____. The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Intro. by George Darley. London: E. Moxon, 1840. 2 vols. LS—annotations, drawing.

Beaverbrook, Max Aitken. Men and Power, 1917-1918. London: Hutchinson, 1956. LW—annotations.

Beckford, Peter. Thoughts on Hunting. Intro. by Charles Richardson. Ornamented by Martin Travers. London: Chapman and Dodd, n. d. VW—bookplate.

Beckford, William. Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha. London: R. Bentley, 1835. VW—presentee. Lytton Strachey—inscriber.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death’s Jest-Book, or, The Fool’s Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

_____. Poems by the Late Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Author of Death’s Jest-Book or the Fool’s Tragedy, with a Memoir. London: William Pickering, 1851.

Bedford, Hebrand Arthur Russell, 11th duke of, and Spencer Pickering. Science and Fruit Growing: Being an Account of the Results Obtained at the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm since its Foundation in 1894. London: Macmillan, 1919.

Bee-keepers’ Record: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Practical Bee-Keeping. London: J. Herrod-Hemsall, 1895-1954. 49 vols. Vol. 22, no. 1 (Jan. 1933) only.

Beer, Max. A History of British Socialism. Intro. by R.H. Tawney. London: G. Bell, 1919-20. LW—annotations.

Beerbohm, Max. And Even Now. London: Heinemann, 1920.

_____. The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. London: Heinemann, 1928.

_____. The Incomparable Max: A Selection. Intro. by S. C. Roberts. London: Heinemann, 1962.

_____. Lytton Strachey: The Rede Lecture, 1943. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. 2 copies. Elizabeth Robins—presentee. Octavia Wilberforce—inscriber.

Beesley, Lawrence. The Loss of the H.M.S Titanic: Its Story and its Lessons. London: Heinemann, 1912.

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Beethoven’s Letters. Notes by Dr. A. C. Kalischer. Trans. and pref. by J. S. Shedlock. Ed. by A. Eaglefield-Hull. London; Toronto: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1926.

Beeton, Isabella Mary. Mrs. Beeton’s Everyday Cookery: With about 2,500 Practical Recipes and Sections on Labour-Saving, Household Work, Marketing, Renovations, Etc., Carving and Trussing, the Art of “Using-Up,” Table Decoration, Table Napkins, Meals and Menus, Beverages, Etc., with 16 Plates in Colour and Nearly 300 Illustrations. New ed. London; Melbourne: Ward, Lock, 1923. Margery and Philip Sidney Woolf—signers.

BéKássay, Ferenc Istvan Dénes Gyula. Adriatica and Other Poems. Pref. by F. L. Lucas. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.

Bekker, Paul. The Story of Music: An Historical Sketch of the Changes in Musical Form. Trans. by M. D. Herter Norton and Alice Kortschak. London: Dent, 1927. Review copy.

Bell, Clive. An Account of French Painting. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. 2 copies.

_____. Art. London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. VW?—markings.

_____. Civilization: An Essay. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. VW—presentee. Clive Bell—inscriber.

_____. Civilization, an Essay by Clive Bell. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928.

_____. Civilization, an Essay by Clive Bell. West Drayton, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin, 1947.

_____. The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla, or, Le paradis de la reine Sibille. Cover and decorations by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. Richmond, Eng.: Hogarth Press, 1923.

_____. Old Friends: Personal Reflections. London: Chattto and Windus, 1956.

_____. Peace at Once. Manchester; London: National Labour Press, 1915.

_____. Poems. Richmond, Eng.: Hogarth Press, 1921.

_____. Pot-Boilers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1918. Review copy.

_____. Proust. London: Hogarth Press, 1928.

_____. Since Cézanne. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922.

_____. Victor Pasmore. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin, 1945.

_____. Warmongers. London: Peace Pledge Union, 1938.

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian. The Letters of Gertrude Bell. Ed. by Lady Bell (Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe). London: Benn, 1930. LW—annotation.

Bell, Graham. The Artist and his Public. Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets, no. 5. London: Hogarth Press, 1939.

Bell, Herbert Clifford Francis. Lord Palmerston. London; New York: Longmans, 1936. 2 vols. LW—annotations.

Bell, Julian. Chaffinches. Songs for Sixpence, no. 2. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1929. 2 copies. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Essays, Poems, and Letters. Ed. by Quentin Bell. Contributions by J. M. Keynes, David Garnett, Charles Mauron, C. Day Lewis, and E. M. Forster. London: Hogarth Press, 1938.

_____. Winter Movement and Other Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. 2 copies. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

_____. Work for the Winter, and Other Poems. Hogarth Living Poets, 2d Series, 4. London: Hogarth Press, 1936.

_____. Work for the Winter: More or Less for Christmas from Julian Bell. S. l.: s. n., n. d. LW, VW—presentees. The Author—inscriber. VW—binder.

Bell, Quentin. Ruskin. Writers and Critics Series, 29. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963. LW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

Belloc, Hilaire. A Change in the Cabinet. London: Methuen, 1909.

_____. Danton: A Study. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910.

_____. The Jews. London: Constable, 1922. LW—annotations.

Bellows, John. John Bellows: Letters and Memoir. Ed. by Elizabeth Earnshaw Bellows. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1904. Thoby Stephen—presentee. Caroline Emelia Stephen—inscriber.

Benda, Julien. The Great Betrayal (La Trahison des Clercs). Trans. by Richard Aldington. London: Routledge, 1928.

Benedicks, Carl. ber Wollastondraht. (Offprinting from Physikalische Zeitschrift, 17. Jahrgang, 1916, p. 319-22).

Benedict, Libby. The Refugees. London: Hogarth Press, 1938.

Benenson, Peter. The Future of Legal Aid. Fabian Research Series, no. 191. London: Fabian Society, 1957. Review copy.

Ben-Jacob, Jeremiah. The Motif of Catastrophe in Jewish History. Foreword by Selig Brodetsky. London: Carmel, 1945. Review copy.

Benkard, Ernst. Undying Faces: A Collection of Death Masks, with a Note by Georg Kolbe. Trans. by Margaret M. Green. London: Hogarth Press, 1929.

Bennett, Arnold. Anna of the Five Towns. New ed. London: Methuen, 1912.

_____. The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns. 6th ed. London: Methuen, 1911.

_____. Don Juan de Marana: A Play in Four Acts. London: T. W. Laurie, 1923. LW—bookplate.

_____. Hilda Lessways. London: Methuen, 1911. VW—markings.

_____. Riceyman Steps: A Novel. London; New York: Cassell, 1923.

Benson, Arthur Christopher. Memories and Friends. London: J. Murray, 1924. The Author—inscriber.

Benson, Stella. Goodbye, Stranger. New York: Macmillan, 1926.

_____. Tobit Transplanted. With rpt. of apocryphal Book of Tobit appended. London: Macmillan, 1931. VW—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

Benson, Wilfrid. As You Were. London: Hogarth Press, 1930.

_____. Dawn on Mont Blanc: Being Incidentally the Tragedy of an Aggravating Young Man. London: Hogarth Press, 1930.

_____. The Foreigner in the Family. London: Hogarth Press, 1929.

_____. Social Policy in Dependent Territories. International Labour Office Studies and Reports. Series B. Economic Conditions, no. 38. Montreal: International Labour Office, 1944.

Bentham, George. Handbook of the British Flora: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to, or Naturalized in, the British Isles: For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs. 5th ed., rev. by Sir J. D. Hooker. London: L. Reeve, 1887. LS—drawing. VW—binder.

Bentley, Robert. A Manual of Botany, Including the Structure, Classification, Properties, Uses and Functions of Plants. 4th ed. London: J. and A. Churchill, 1882.

Bentwich, Norman de Mattos. The Colonial Problem and the Federal Solution. Federal Tracts, no. 3. London: Macmillan, 1941.

_____. England in Palestine. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1932. LW—annotations.

Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896. LS?—markings.

Beresford, J. D. The Hampdenshire Wonder. New Adelphi Library, vol. 20. London: M. Secker, 1926.

Beresford, John. Gossip of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1923. Review copy.

Berg Collection. New in the Berg Collection: An Exhibition. By John D. Gordan. New York: New York Public Library, 1964.

Berg Collection. New in the Berg Collection, 1962-1964. By Lola L. Szladits. New York: New York Public Library, 1969.

Bergson, Henri Louis. The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict. Intro. by H. Wildon Carr. London: T. F. Unwin, 1915. Review copy.

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: Wherein in Chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are Inquired into, to which are Added, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Scepticks and Atheists. London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1734.

Berlin, Isaiah. Historical Inevitability. Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture, no. 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1954. LW—annotations. Review copy.

_____. Karl Marx, his Life and Environment. Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, 189. 2d ed. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.

_____. Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford, on 31 October 1958. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.

Bernard, Luther Lee. An Introduction to Social Psychology. American Social Sciences Series. London: Allen & Unwin, 1927.

Bernays, Anne. The New York Ride. New York: Pocket Books, 1966.

Bertarelli, L. V. Northern Italy, from the Alps to Rome (Rome Excepted). Ed. by Findlay Muirhead. Blue Guides. London: Macmillan, 1924.

_____. Southern Italy, Including Rome, Sicily, and Sardinia. Ed. by Findlay Muirhead. Blue Guides. London: Macmillan, 1925. LW—annotations.

Bertini, Emma. Italian Verbs Simplified: A Complement of “The Italian Companion and Interpreter.” 8th ed. Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1924.

The Berwick Church Paintings. Eastbourne: Towner Art Gallery, 1969.

Best, Mary Agnes. Thomas Paine: Prophet and Martyr of Democracy. London: Allen & Unwin, [1927?]. LW—annotations. Review copy.

Best Poems of 1927. See Moult, Thomas.

Betjeman, John. Antiquarian Prejudice. Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets, no. 3. London: Hogarth Press, 1939.

Betz, Maurice. Le démon impur: Roman. Paris: Émilie-Paul Fréres, 1926. John Middleton Murry—presentee. The Author—inscriber.

Bevan, Aneurin. Democratic Values. Fabian Tract, no. 282. London: Fabian Publications; V. Gollacz, 1951.

______, E. J. Strachey, and George Strauss. What We Saw in Russia. Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 4. London: Hogarth Press, 1931.

Bevan, Edwyn. The World of Greece and Rome. Benn’s Sixpenny Library, no. 2. London: Benn, 1927. Review copy.

______. See Zimmermann, Emil. The German Empire of Central Africa.

Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron. Beveridge on Beveridge: Recent Speeches of Sir William Beveridge. Ed. by Joan S. Clarke. London: The Social Security League, 1944. Review copy.

_____. Blockade and the Civilian Population. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, 24. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939.

_____. Full Employment in a Free Society: A Summary. London: New Stateman and Nation; Reynolds News, 1944.

Bevin, Ernest. The Britain I Want to See. London: Labour Party, 1934.

_____. My Plan for 2,000,000 Workless. London: Clarion Press, 1933.

Beyens, Eugène-Napoléon Louis Joseph Marie Auguste. La question africaine. Bruxelles; Paris: G. van Oest, 1918.

Beyle, Marie Henri. See Stendhal.

Bibesco, Martha. Au bal avec Marcel Proust. Cahiers Marcel Proust, 4. Paris: Gallimard, 1928. VW—binder.

Bible. English. Authorized. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesties Speciall Command: Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge: J. Hayes, 1683.

Bible. English. Authorized. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty’s Special Command: Appointed to be Read in Churches. Oxford; New York: The University Press, 1893. LW—presentee, annotator. Marie Woolf—inscriber.

Bible. English. Authorized. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty’s Special Command: Appointed to be Read in Churches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900. VW—presentee. Violet Dickinson—inscriber.

Bible. English. Authorized. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty’s Special Command: Appointed to be Read in Churches. London: The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1909. VW—presentee. LW—inscriber.

Bible. Latin. Tremellius. Biblia Sacra: Sive, Testamentum Vetus, ob Im. Temellio et Fr. Iunio ex Hebraeo Latinè redditum, et, Testamentum Novum, à Theod. Beza è Graeco in Latinum versum. Amsterdam: I. I. Schipper, 1669.

Bible. Tamil. 1901. The Ho



	Washington State University Press PO Box 645910 Pullman, Washington 99164-5910 Phone: 800-354-7360 Fax: 509-335-8568 E-mail: wsupress@wsu.edu Web site: wsupress.wsu.edu © 2003 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University All rights reserved First printing 2003 Printed and bound in the United States of America on pH-neutral, acid-free paper. Reproduction or transmission of material contained in this publication in excess of that permitted by copyright law is prohibited without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf : a short-title catalog / compiled and edited by Julia King and Laila Miletic-Vejzovic ; foreword by Laila Miletic-Vejzovic ; introduction by Diane F. Gillespie. p. c.m. ISBN 0-87422-270-2 (hardbound : alk. paper) 1. Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969—Library—Catalogs. 2. Rare books—Washington (State)—Pullman—Bibliography—Catalogs. 3. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941—Library—Catalogs. 4. Rare books—England—Bibliography—Catalogs. 5. Washington State University. Library—Catalogs. 6. Private libraries—England—Catalogs. I. King, Julia, 1953- II. Miletic-Vejzovic, Laila. CIP Foreword by Laila Miletic-Vejzovic Head, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (MASC) at Washington State University Libraries offers to scholars the major part of the personal library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, comprising some 4,000 titles, which was still in the possession of Leonard Woolf before his death in 1969.1 The Libraries acquired the first boxes from the Woolfs’ London home and from the Monks House in Rodmell soon thereafter. The Woolfs had built their library around a nucleus of books that Virginia inherited from her father, Leslie Stephen. Stephen, one of the first editors of the Dictionary of National Biography, had a vast library, and much of it came to Virginia after his death in 1904. It was in his library that Leslie Stephen taught Virginia the basic skills of an historian. She was such an avid reader that he allowed her to choose what she wanted to read from his collection, with the stipulation that she read everything twice and that she make up her own mind about what she read rather than rely on the opinions of others. It is little wonder that she found biographies to be among the most interesting of the books. Her diaries, letters, and published works—both fictional and nonfictional—indicate that Virginia continued to read and reread books from her father’s library throughout her life.2 Among the unique features of many books in the Woolf Library are decorations and other mending measures carried out by Virginia Woolf. MASC has devoted much time and money to restoring and preserving the books, many of which arrived in very bad condition. “To them books were tools rather than collector’s items. Many have detached covers showing stress to hinges from hard use. Virginia’s own efforts at book repair are slapdash and pathetically inadequate. This indicates yet again that their library was a working library to be used as a tool of trade in their profession as writers.”3 We have tried when possible to keep intact the work Virginia Woolf herself did, and these books are identified as such, i.e., Virginia Woolf’s bindings. Only a few of the works of Leonard Woolf and even fewer of those of Virginia Woolf came to WSU with their library. However, early in the acquisition process, the decision was made by WSU Libraries to collect all the Woolfs’ works, including all editions of Virginia’s books. The couple founded Hogarth Press in 1917, while both were becoming known as authors and critics, and Leonard was a rising editor. The press, which permitted them to publish works they thought worthy, also saved Virginia from the stress of submitting her work directly to another publisher and provided her with a diversion from writing. Since only a smattering of Hogarth Press books were included in WSU Libraries’ earlier purchases, when Trekkie Parsons offered a large collection of Hogarth Press publications for sale in 1974, WSU seized the opportunity to purchase them. Parsons had inherited these books, which covered the period from 1917 to 1941, from Leonard Wolf after his death. Other large purchases that have filled the gaps in the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf have included books owned by Leonard Woolf’s nephew, Cecil. In 1979 the Libraries purchased some 400 books from Cecil Woolf, which Leonard had sold to him over the years. WSU acquired a further hundred books from Virginia’s nephew and biographer, the late Professor Quentin Bell, in 1983. In more recent years, a few additional titles from the original Woolf Library were added to the holdings in MASC, acquired from book dealers in England and the United States. However, the majority of what now constitutes the Libraries’ printed Woolf holdings was purchased in six lots between 1971 and 1983. This personal library reveals a great deal about the Woolfs, such as how they read the books and what they meant to them, and provides scholars with valuable insights into their lives. Much biographical information may be gleaned from the books in their library. Evidence of their wide circle of acquaintances in the literary and political worlds is present in the many books inscribed to them by authors or sent to them for review. Leonard and Virginia’s autographs in books they bought for themselves or each other highlight their own particular tastes. This fascinating library provides much for the scholar interested in the Woolfs’ friends and associates, especially the authors and artists of the Bloomsbury Group—notably Clive and Vanessa Bell, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, David Garnett, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Desmond and Mary MacCarthy, Dame Edith Sitwell, Adrian Stephen, and Lytton Strachey.4 The following short-title catalog consists of brief citations that reflect all the titles within the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf held by MASC. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order by author or title. They also include an edition and/or printing or impression statement (where applicable), the publishing place, publisher, and publishing date. At the end of each entry, names of those responsible for any inscriptions, annotations, drawings, etc., are provided. Initials are used for the three most frequent names—Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, and Leslie Stephen (LW, VW, and LS). Other names are spelled in full. Each title in this fine collection has been individually cataloged. The full bibliographic records can be searched and retrieved in the WSU Libraries’ online catalog, Griffin, by performing an author search on “The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.” Several books from the Woolfs’ personal library originally arrived with laid-in inserts. In order to provide better intellectual control, as well as to address preservation issues, these laid-in papers were removed from the individual books and processed separately. This small manuscript collection is identified as Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers, ca. 1875-1974. The shelf list number for this collection is Cage 674. These insert papers consist of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous material that, for various reasons, were placed by Leonard or Virginia Woolf in books from their personal library or slipped into titles that had been sent to them as review copies or as gifts. Most of the insert material has some relationship to the title with which it was originally associated, although the reason for a presence in a given book is not always clear. Of special interest among the manuscripts are the literary and scholarly fragments, some with definite authorship.5 The collection is organized chronologically into two series: Series 1, Correspondence, 1909-1974, n. d. and Series 2, Manuscripts, 1875-1938, n. d. This arrangement was imposed by the archivist. Where possible, items are minimally described according to elements selected from the information in the manuscript inserts or that was established by previous research. The electronic version of this finding aid (available at: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg674.htm) offers direct World Wide Web links to the bibliographic record for each book from which a given insert was removed. These records may contain more information about individual items. Ever since the first books from the Woolf Library started arriving at WSU, Woolf scholars have been anxiously waiting for the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf short-title catalog to be published. Therefore, we are very pleased to issue this catalog, which will further facilitate scholarly communication. Even though over the years students have made use of the Woolf Library for many class projects, and scholars have published articles and full-length books based on information gleaned from the library, there is still much untapped information awaiting the curiosity of scholars. Acknowledgements As one would imagine over the course of the years, many individuals have been involved with the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Thirty-two years have elapsed, and the key people responsible for acquiring the Woolf Library have departed in different directions. We acknowledge and thank them for their efforts in purchasing this important collection and ensuring that it be placed and preserved in a public institution open to everyone, as this would have been a strong desire of Virginia Woolf herself. First, we thank John Elwood, then chair of the English department, and his wife Karen, who, during a sabbatical in England in 1967, developed a friendship with Fred and Nancy Lucas of the Bow Windows Book Shop in Lewes. Through this friendship, they had the opportunity to meet and visit Leonard Woolf at Monks House in Rodmell. After Leonard Woolf’s passing, Nancy Lucas casually mentioned in a letter to Karen Elwood that the first lots from the London house and Monks House would become available for purchase. Donald Smith, then director of WSU Libraries, generously supported the purchase. Anne Wierum, then Head of the Humanities Library, supervised the unpacking and processing of the first books, with assistance from Leila Luedeking, a library staff employee. In 1978, after the creation of Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, the books from the Woolfs’ personal library were permanently moved into MASC. Mrs. Luedeking also transferred into MASC and continued to devote most of her time to cataloging the major part of the collection. (Mrs. Luedeking became an acclaimed and published Woolf scholar herself.) Special thanks are extended to the late John Guido, erstwhile Head of Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, who was very interested in continuing to build upon the initial purchases with a view to making this library as complete as it was at the end of Leonard Woolf’s life. During his tenure, John supported cataloging and especially preservation efforts to ensure the collection’s longevity. Finally, we acknowledge Mrs. Mildred Bissinger, a very generous donor to MASC. Mrs. Bissinger was one of the first scholars to examine the Woolf library at MASC, coming shortly after the initial acquisitions were made. That first visit to the campus in Pullman since her graduation from Washington State College many years earlier was instrumental in renewing Mrs. Bissinger’s ties with her alma mater and in establishing a long-lasting friendship with Leila Luedeking and a wonderful relationship with MASC staff. Funds from Mildred Bissinger’s endowment were used to subsidize publishing costs for this book. Endnotes 1. First books were purchased starting in 1971. See accounts in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, No. 22 (spring 1984), edited by Diane Gillespie. The issue also includes some history of the Woolf library at WSU, a summary of its contents, and examples of drawings in some of the books. 2. Miletic-Vejzovic, Laila. A Library of One’s Own: The Library of Leonard and Virgina Woolf. London: Cecil Woolf, 1997, p. 3, 4. 3. Ibid., p. 13, 16. 4. Ibid., p. 8, 9. 5. Published (printed) material was left in the books.