A Calendar of Consolation. A Comforting Thought for Every Day in the Year.

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 101, [3, blank]. Grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. In price-clipped and slightly chipped photographic dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears to back panel.

Fine copy signed by Leonard Woolf to title-page. A smidgen of foxing to f.f.e.p., transferring across to price-clipped dustwrapper flap, with a few closed tears (a couple or so an inch long) to edges and folds, else Very Good.

An anthology of quotations by authors' ancient and modern, selected by Woolf for their profundity or originality. Here's a taster: "There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise." [Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his correspondence to Malesherbes (French statesman)]