HARDY, THOMAS: THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL AT TINTAGEL IN LYONNESSE.
London, Macmillan & Co., 1923
FIRST EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY, formerly owned by H.A. Martin, President of the ‘Hardy Players’ who first performed the play and member of the original cast. Initialled AUTOGRAPH NOTE BY HARDY tipped onto first blank and a long explanatory note by Martin tipped-in facing half-title. Frontispiece and one illustration reproduced from drawings by Hardy. 8vo., original green cloth, blocked in blind and gilt, original dust jacket.
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Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Lower half of dust
jacket torn away and repairs to edges, a little browning to endpapers.
Hardy’s note concerns
a couplet used for the half-title of the original programme – “Correct the
notes on half-title to the above – please”. Martin explains in his own note
that he drafted the programme one Sunday evening at Hardy’s home Max Gate with
Hardy approving every word before it went to the printer.
The play was first
performed at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester on 28th November 1923
with H.A. Martin as one of the cast.
Reference: Purdy,
p.227-231
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