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A grey book jacket with geometric shapes in varying shades of grey with yellow circle made of smaller squares at middle; cover reads "On Being Ill / Virginia Woolf / The Hogarth Press."

On Being Ill (1930)
Pencil sketch of a book cover painted with blue watercolor, with text reading "The Second Common..." and "Virginia Woolf," and sketch of a sculpture of a woman's face and neck with laurel crown, painted in green.
Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind
A painted sketch of a book jacket design, with blue geometric shapes and green classical bust of a woman's face and neck with laurel wreath crown, text reading "The Second Common Reader / Virginia Woolf".
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London

Design for The Common Reader: Second Series

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)

Design for The Common Reader: Second Series

Ink and pencil on paper, ca. 1932

: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

: William Beekman Collection of Virginia Woolf and Her Circle

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  • Pencil sketch of a book cover painted with blue watercolor, with text reading "The Second Common..." and "Virginia Woolf," and sketch of a sculpture of a woman's face and neck with laurel crown, painted in green.

    Section 3: Criticism Introduction

  • A faded pink and blue marbled journal cover with label reading "Modern Novels (Joyce)" and additional handwritten title "Modern Novels."

    “Modern Novels“

  • A tan book cover with a rounded showing a clock made of squares and geometric shapes, with lowercase text reading "a room of one's own / Virginia Woolf."

    A Room of One's Own (1929)

  • An ink and pencil sketch with paper divided into two halves, one with black-and-white and one with color sketch of geometric book jacket design, with additional sketches and notes around the borders of the illustration, which reads "On Being Ill / Virginia Woolf / The Hogarth Press."

    Design for On Being Ill

  • A grey book jacket with geometric shapes in varying shades of grey with yellow circle made of smaller squares at middle; cover reads "On Being Ill / Virginia Woolf / The Hogarth Press."

    On Being Ill (1930)

  • A painted sketch of a book jacket design, with blue geometric shapes and green classical bust of a woman's face and neck with laurel wreath crown, text reading "The Second Common Reader / Virginia Woolf".

    Design for The Common Reader: Second Series

  • Pencil sketch of a book cover painted with blue watercolor, with text reading "The Second Common..." and "Virginia Woolf," and sketch of a sculpture of a woman's face and neck with laurel crown, painted in green.

    Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind