First edition, first impression, first issue. Maurice Baring's copy, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, and his engraved bookplate to the front pastedown. One of 2,500 copies printed; the second issue can be distinguished by the insertion of an extra eight pages of advertisements. Baring (1874-1945) was Forster's contemporary at Cambridge, and though known to the Apostles and later, the Bloomsbury Group, his lifelong anti-intellectualism, recalled by Anthony Powell in his biography of Baring, and his conversion to Catholicism in 1909, meant that he was always closer to the circle of G. K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. In his writings he nevertheless shared Forster's capacity for social satire, and his novels are considered to be "minor masterpieces in character study and social depiction" (ODNB).
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