• A passionate love letter from Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West with whimsical woodblock illustrations by Djuna Barnes

Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West broadside

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • First printing, letterpress on light green tweed recycled cover paper. First edition, 375 copies, signed. Text in black with burnt orange initial caps and engravings and peach piece border. Second edition printed letterpress on golden cover paper, 375 copies, signed, and the type redistributed. Text in black with burnt brown initial caps and engravings and blue piece border. Words from letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, September and October 1918, Don’t Look Round, Trefusis, Violet, London: Hutchinson, 1952. Woodblocks by Djuna Barnes, from The Ladies Almanack, anonymously written & illustrated By a Lady of Fashion [Barnes, Djuna], privately printed by Darantiere at Dijon, Paris, 1928.
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