ONE OF JUST 350 NUMBERED COPIES.

PARTRIDGE, Frances ~ Patten People No. 3. The Pasque Flower, or the history of obsession. Signed by the author.

FIRST UK PRINTING. The Patten Press, Newmill: 1990.

8vo., bright red card covers, printed in black with text and bold design by Gertrude Hermes in black to the upper cover; publisher's device to lower; with a tipped-in frontis illustration of a flower by Richard Chopping, along with numerous black and white tipped-in photographs in text; THE BOOK with slight evidence of a sticker having been removed from the lower cover; else fine. The book is protected in a removable mylar sleeve. LIMITED EDITION, one of just 350 numbered copies, this copy no. 190, neatly signed by the author beneath her crossed-out name, and inscribed 'For Barbara'. Partridge had close connections with the Bloomsbury Group. In her youth, she worked for a bookshop in London owned by David Garnett, where she became aquainted with Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Ralph Partridge - the latter of whom she married in 1933. This work is a short natural history on the subject of a rare UK flower, featuring photographs of the author along with Richard Chopping and other friends.

BINDING: Softcover
CONDITION: Fine