Viola Tree. Illustrated by Virginia Parsons.
Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. London. 1937. First edition. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. 256 pages. Dust jacket, title-page and 6 hors texte plates. English. 220 x 145mm. 0.6kg. . Very good, in fair dust jacket; light shelf wear to boards, some browning to edges, spotting to endpapers and prelims, no inscriptions; areas of loss to jacket at head and tail of spine, and front flap, tear along half of front fold, some soiling to jacket, darkening to spine.
'On country visits, avoid showing you are bored. Be content to be bored - sometimes.'
A 1930s book of etiquette advice from Viola Tree, drawn from her regular Agony Aunt columns in the Sunday Dispatch. Tree was the daughter of Herbert Beerbohm Tree and was heavily involved in the theatre as actor, producer and writer. She was well-placed to provide advice on manners and society. Although the book is billed as being for "all classes", advice on 'Menus and wines for all occasions', 'How to give a dance or a ball', and 'How to arrive at and leave a weekend party' suggest that the audience was not so broad. The book was published by The Hogarth Press in October 1937 in a run of 2,038 copies. Tree's daughter, Virginia Parsons, provided the illustrations.
[Howard Woolmer. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press. 1986. No. 422]
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