RA Collection: People and Organisations
English writer and publisher. The only child of writer, critic and publisher Edward Garnett (1868-1937) and Constance Clara Black (1861-1946), a translator of Russian.
David Garnett was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group. He ran a bookshop in Gerrard Street, Soho London, with Francis Birrell (1889-1935) during the 1920s. He also founded, with Francis Meynell and Vera Mendel, the Nonesuch Press.
Born: 9 March 1892 in Brighton
Died: 17 February 1981
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
A plurality of worlds : John Glanvill's translation / with a prologue by David Garnett - [London]: 1929
10/4539
Anthony Gross RA
The very rich hours of Le Boulvé / written and illustrated with twenty-six etchings and engravings on copper by Anthony Gross ; with a foreword by David Garnett. - Cambridge, England: 1980
15/1946