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Luxmoore, H. E.
Letters of H. E. Luxmoore.
 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 7490
 
FIRST EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY. From the library of both E. S. P. Haynes and Roger Senhouse. Octavo, pp. xvi, 367, [1]. 3 plates comprising frontispiece portrait of Luxmoore from a photograph by Hills & Saunders of Eton with tissue guard; Sketch by A.C. James in colour and a page of Luxmoore’s inscribed verse in facsimile. Publishers’ blue cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Spare label tipped in to rear. Typed Index of the letters to 5 sheets, folded and loosely inserted. Cover cloth lightly scuffed and soiled with minor bruising to boards; spine and label toned. From the libraries if E.S.P. Haynes and Roger Senhouse, with their ownership signatures to front paste-down, Haynes’ dated in year of publication and Senhouse’s in year of purchase (1949). A little marginal annotation in pencil in the hand of Haynes (also to Index sheets), and a few marks to leaves from historic use of paper-clips. A Very Good copy overall.
 
Letters of the House Master at Eton, with Introduction by master of the macabre Montgomery Rhodes James, once one of Luxmoore’s pupils and the recipient of several letters in the collection. Edmund Stanley Pollock Haynes (1877-1949), the original owner of the volume, was Kings Scholar at Eton; as a prolific author and man-about-town, he was well known in literary circles in London in the early 20th century and almost certainly acquainted with Roger Senhouse, whose inscription includes the note “ March 1949 E.S.P.H. sale “ indicating that he obtained the volume from Haynes’ estate. Senhouse (1899-1970) was a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury group and co-owner of publishing house Secker and Warburg who printed the works of major authors such as George Orwell, Gunter Grass and Melvyn Bragg; Senhouse is also known for his secret 1930s sado-masochistic relationship with Lytton Strachey.
 
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