Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd - 1968

London - Heinemann, 1968 Book. VERY GOOD INDEED. Hardcover. First edition.. A two volume set of Michael Holroyd's ground-breaking biographyof Lytton Strachey. Volume I: The Unknown Years (1880 - 1910) Includes 24 illustrations, being a mixture of both photographs, paintings and sketches. Details Strachey's early life, education and his first encounter with those that would eventually make up the infamous Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf (nes Stephen). Volume II: The Years of Achievment (1910 - 1932)Includes 28 illustrations, being a mixture of both photographs, paintings and sketches. Examines Strachey's most famous work, Eminent Victorians, through to his later life at Ham Spray House and finally his death. Looks at Strachey's posthumous influence and the legacy he left behind him. Lytton Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, best known during his own lifetime for his biographical work, Eminent Victorians. Duringrecent years, partly thanks toHolroyd's work, Strachey has gained new-found famefor his candidexpression of sexuality and hisrelationships within the Bloomsbury Group. His relationship withartist,Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge, was documented in the1995 film, Carrington. The first edition. Condition: In cloth binding with black spine labels, each with gilt lettering. Externally, very smart with some edgewear and shelf wear to the head and tail of spines. With a section of the original dustwrapper to Volume II set in. With some mild soiling to the fore-edge. Internally, lovely with some verylight age-toning to the pages. Otherwise clean and firmly bound. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED..