GARNETT, David (1892-1981). Autograph manuscript signed (with initials, 'D.G.'), a neat presentation copy of a collection of poems, 'Puerilia', dedicated to Duncan Grant 'to the older and incomparable Mr D.G. these first fruits of one D.G.', comprising 31 poems, composed in Heidelberg, various places in Eastern Europe, The Cearne, Walberswick, Squerries Park, Chelsea, and elsewhere, 1910 - 13 June 1915, 34 pages, small 4to , contemporary hessian-backed boards.
GARNETT, David (1892-1981). Autograph manuscript signed (with initials, 'D.G.'), a neat presentation copy of a collection of poems, 'Puerilia', dedicated to Duncan Grant 'to the older and incomparable Mr D.G. these first fruits of one D.G.', comprising 31 poems, composed in Heidelberg, various places in Eastern Europe, The Cearne, Walberswick, Squerries Park, Chelsea, and elsewhere, 1910 - 13 June 1915, 34 pages, small 4to , contemporary hessian-backed boards. Although they had met in 1913, it was not until early 1915 that Grant fell passionately in love with 'Bunny' Garnett, and for a while Garnett formed part of the complicated and quintessentially Bloomsbury ménage involving Grant and Vanessa and Clive Bell (Garnett's later marriage (in 1942) to Grant and Vanessa Bell's daughter Angelica was considered a step too far even for Bloomsbury morality, however). Garnett left the present volume as a gift to Grant on his departure for France as a volunteer helper with the Friends' War Victims' Relief Fund in June 1915, drawing a rapturous response: 'Bunny, you don't realise how much I love you ...' (undated letter, July 1915). In addition to the dedicatory poem to Grant, the collection, amongst a number of evocations of tortured young love, includes a passionate poem addressed to the imprisoned Indian freedom fighter V.D. Savarkar, whose friendship with Garnett, including the latter's attempts to help him escape from Brixton Gaol, are described in Garnett's memoir The Golden Echo (1953, pp.144ff).
GARNETT, David (1892-1981). Autograph manuscript signed (with initials, 'D.G.'), a neat presentation copy of a collection of poems, 'Puerilia', dedicated to Duncan Grant 'to the older and incomparable Mr D.G. these first fruits of one D.G.', comprising 31 poems, composed in Heidelberg, various places in Eastern Europe, The Cearne, Walberswick, Squerries Park, Chelsea, and elsewhere, 1910 - 13 June 1915, 34 pages, small 4to , contemporary hessian-backed boards.
GARNETT, David (1892-1981). Autograph manuscript signed (with initials, 'D.G.'), a neat presentation copy of a collection of poems, 'Puerilia', dedicated to Duncan Grant 'to the older and incomparable Mr D.G. these first fruits of one D.G.', comprising 31 poems, composed in Heidelberg, various places in Eastern Europe, The Cearne, Walberswick, Squerries Park, Chelsea, and elsewhere, 1910 - 13 June 1915, 34 pages, small 4to , contemporary hessian-backed boards. Although they had met in 1913, it was not until early 1915 that Grant fell passionately in love with 'Bunny' Garnett, and for a while Garnett formed part of the complicated and quintessentially Bloomsbury ménage involving Grant and Vanessa and Clive Bell (Garnett's later marriage (in 1942) to Grant and Vanessa Bell's daughter Angelica was considered a step too far even for Bloomsbury morality, however). Garnett left the present volume as a gift to Grant on his departure for France as a volunteer helper with the Friends' War Victims' Relief Fund in June 1915, drawing a rapturous response: 'Bunny, you don't realise how much I love you ...' (undated letter, July 1915). In addition to the dedicatory poem to Grant, the collection, amongst a number of evocations of tortured young love, includes a passionate poem addressed to the imprisoned Indian freedom fighter V.D. Savarkar, whose friendship with Garnett, including the latter's attempts to help him escape from Brixton Gaol, are described in Garnett's memoir The Golden Echo (1953, pp.144ff).
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