WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966)

WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English writer whose novels include Vile Bodies (1930) and Brideshead Revisited (1945). A.L.S., with his initials E.W., to one side of his personal printed postcard, Piers Court, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, n.d. (c.1948), to a firm of bookbinders, most likely Messrs. Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Waugh sends his correspondents some instructions and returns some samples of leather, asking 'Will you please use the lighter of the two blues for binding 'The Loved One', sheets of which should reach you early in September. Please bind in full leather with silk ends and doublures, leather joints. Trim & guild all edges. Sew on five raised broad bands & tool bands (narrow classical roll). No other tooling except roll repeated round doublures'. One small central surface crease and an area of discolouration to the left half of the card. G The London bookbinding firm of Sangorski & Sutcliffe was established in 1901 and is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century. The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by Waugh concerning the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.