Bloomsbury Fair

First edition, first impression.  232pp.  Black cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  Illustrated endpapers. Upper text block edge sprayed  blue. 8vo. Cloth a tad pushed at spine tips and corners, hint of forward lean.  Faint toning to endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  Dust wrapper a little rubbed and bumped at edges, slight soiling to extreme edges, a little shelf worn and perhaps slightly faded.  Dust jacket in an old and worn protective, removable clear film sleeve.

The story of a dressmaker, a milliner, a musician, a chocolate-maker and a family of lady’s hairdressers who, all having grown up more or less together in the London village of Bloomsbury, dominated by the British Museum, and, through hard work and genius become eminent. Madeline Henry, through a series of coincides so strange they could only occur in real life, found herself embroiled in the affairs of these families which she records here, and ultimately a part of the Bloomsbury Fair she describes.  As the volume proclaims, this is a true story and all the people mentioned in the book are real people bearing their own names.