THE 'DREADNOUGHT' HOAX.
With an Introduction by Quentin Bell. Pp. 62(last blank), frontispiece, plus 2 full page illustrations; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper (lightly offset onto half-title page), the text block faintly browned, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, London, 1983. New edition. *The only first-hand account of the hoax perpetrated by Horace de Vere Cole and friends (including Duncan Grant, Adrian and Virginia Stephen [Woolf]), disguised as 'the Emperor of Abyssinia and entourage'), against the Royal Navy. Virginia Woolf only referred to the escapade publicly in a 1940 lecture to the Women's Institute at Rodmell, not in her writings. Adrian Stephen's account was first published in 1936. Item #165654
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