WHAT A LIFE! AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by E. V. L. and G. M. Illustrated by Whiteley's by Edward Verrall Lucas, George Morrow

$1,850 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911 . Octavo, pp. 1-9 10-128, original orange wrappers printed in black. First edition, first printing. A photo-collage novel using illustrations from Whiteley's General Catalogue. The satire is best known for its inventive narrative technique: the story takes the reader through the life of an upper-class British gentleman, with the plot being dictated by the book's illustrations, which

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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