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Ibsen, Henrik; Gosse, Edmund (trans.); Archer, William (trans.).
The Master Builder A Play in Three Acts.
Publisher: William Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1893
Stock Code: 15210
First edition in English. Octavo, pp., 227, [5], 16 of publisher’s catalogue; photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher’s original pale green cloth over forest green back; white end-papers. Armorial bookplate of one ‘E. Penton’ front free paste-down; small, neat ownership inscription of critic and scholar G. S. Ivy in blue ink to front free end-paper. Corners bumped; top edge dusty; light soiling to lower board. Occasional spots to contents. A solid, very serviceable copy. The first English edition of one of Ibsen’s late plays, regarded by the translator William Archer as ‘a history of a sickly conscience, worked out in terms of pure psychology’. Henrik Ibsen is widely regarded as ‘the father of modern drama’, and a pioneer of theatrical realism. £200.00