[DICKENS (CHARLES)]A Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta in Two Acts by "Boz", First performed at the St James's Theatre on Thursday 29 September 1836, FIRST EDITION, with the mispelling "somehting" on p.5., etched frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), browning and spotting to frontispiece, later half blue morocco gilt, label on upper cover, preserved in matching slipcase [Eckel, pp.154-156; Gimbel A26], 8vo (174 x 103mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1837FootnotesFIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE FRONTISPIECE, OF THE "SCARCEST AND THE COSTLIEST OF ALL DICKENS PAMPHLETS" (Eckel). The Strange Gentleman, the first of the author's plays to be performed publicly, was adapted from "The Winglebury Duel" in Sketches by Boz, as a vehicle for Dickens' friend, the comic actor John Pritt Harley. The play was very well received and reviewed, running for over fifty nights. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 July 2014, lot 533.
[DICKENS (CHARLES)]A Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta in Two Acts by "Boz", First performed at the St James's Theatre on Thursday 29 September 1836, FIRST EDITION, with the mispelling "somehting" on p.5., etched frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), browning and spotting to frontispiece, later half blue morocco gilt, label on upper cover, preserved in matching slipcase [Eckel, pp.154-156; Gimbel A26], 8vo (174 x 103mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1837FootnotesFIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE FRONTISPIECE, OF THE "SCARCEST AND THE COSTLIEST OF ALL DICKENS PAMPHLETS" (Eckel). The Strange Gentleman, the first of the author's plays to be performed publicly, was adapted from "The Winglebury Duel" in Sketches by Boz, as a vehicle for Dickens' friend, the comic actor John Pritt Harley. The play was very well received and reviewed, running for over fifty nights. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 July 2014, lot 533.
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