Prelude to misadventure /
Violet Keppel, Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis (1894-1970)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3160707
Summary
Bibliographic description
187, [1], 24 p. ; 22 cm. Errata slip affixed to contents page. Final endpaper manuscript pencil notes. Loosely inserted (p.19): unsent typescript letter on three looseleaf sheets: headed: Sissinghurst Castle, dated: 3rd April 1961; addressed to “Mr. Lusty”, unsigned; contains critical remarks on Betty Massingham’s then unpublished biography of Jekyll. Provenance: half-title inscribed in ink: “À M. en souvenir de notre enfance à Paris / L. / 1941 [i.e. to [Mitya] Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962, from [Lushka] Violet Trefusis, 1894–1972]. Binding: red publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in yellow.
Makers and roles
Violet Keppel, Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis (1894-1970)