FIRST EDITION, “DISCURSIONS”, OSBERT SITWELL, PUB. GRANT RICHARDS 1925
About this piece
Osbert Sitwell’s debut essay collection, Discursions, published by Grant Richards in 1925. This is a first edition of the Bloomsbury-adjacent wit’s spirited meditations on art, architecture, travel and society—including his celebrated essay on the Roman ruins at Padula, reproduced here with period black-and-white plates. The binding is a striking bright red cloth with embossed title lettering to the spine and cover.
The book shows honest wear consistent with a century of gentle use: the cloth is sound and the pages remain crisp and clean, though the spine and edges have naturally softened with age. A handsome example of early twentieth-century publishing design, and a key title in Sitwell’s literary career, now increasingly collected by readers of interwar modernism and design history.






















