The Waste Land – as typeset by Woolf

While TS Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' had appeared in book form in the US in 1922 – and in two magazines the same year – the edition published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in Richmond, Surrey in 1923 was the first in the UK.

Virginia Woolf typeset the poem herself with the total print run estimated at around 460 copies.

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