Price: £100
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1927
Stock Number: 62054
Lewis (Wyndham)
The Lion and the Fox, the Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare.
Description: FIRST EDITION, sparing pencil marking to margins corresponding to brief notes at head of rear free endpaper, and the odd correction to the text, pp. 326, [2, ads], 8vo, original bluish grey cloth, bevelled edges, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with some wear at ends and a dink towards foot, a few marks overall and one corner knocked, t.e.g., a small amount of cracking at head of front hinge, fair
Publication Details: Grant Richards, 1927
Notes: Signed by the author at the head of the title-page, and uncommon thus. Lewis's discursion, typically tangential, on Shakespeare's plotting and characterisation. This is the variant, Morrow & Lafourcade's (2), printed on unwatermarked laid paper, with 'Richards' stamped in gilt at the backstrip tail.
Bibliography: (Pound & Grover A6a: Morrow & Lafourcade A7a(2))
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