Atalanta's Garland. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women's Union 1926.

First edition. Medium 8vo. Pp. xiv, 191, [1]. Quarter-bound cream cloth over patterned tan orange and white boards, printed paper title label to upper cover. Tissue-guarded colour frontis, plus 11 full-page illustrations (some in colour) by Katherine Cameron, Jessie M. King, Phoebe Traquair, Cecile Walton et al., including a photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf.

Comprising a print run of 2000 copies, 950 of which were bound in November 1926 in a white cloth spine (in five binding variants), and 50 in vellum, with this copy being the primary tan binding. A further 250 copies were bound in 1927, with the remaining 750 copies being pulped in June 1956.

Sans the scarce Otto Schlapp-designed dustwrapper. Spine tanned, top edge dust soiled, signature to flyleaf, endpapers lightly foxed, else Near Fine.

Edinburgh University Women's Union 21st anniversary issue. With the first appearance of Virginia Woolf's short sketch, 'A Woman's College from the Outside' (being a dropped episode from Jacob's Room), 'Two Unpublished Sketches' by Katherine Mansfield; additional contributions by Hilaire Belloc, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, T. Sturge Moore et al.

[Kirkpatrick & Clarke B6]