Property from the Workman Collection
Dickens, CharlesThe Strange Gentleman; A Comic Burletta, in two acts. By "Boz." First performed at the St. James's Theatre, on Thursday, September 29, 1836. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
8vo (170 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispiece illustration by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"); a few stray spots. Rebound in crushed red morocco, covers with gilt rules, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with decorative gilt device, original wrappers bound in; some minor soiling to wrappers, small area of marginal restoration to upper wrapper, a couple creases to lower wrapper.
First edition, with the rare frontispiece—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 based on "The Winglebury Duel" in Sketches by Boz, and was a vehicle for the author's friend, the comic actor John Pritt Harley (see lot 118 for a presentation copy to Harley). The author's text was heavily revised during rehearsals and songs added to properly transform it into a "burletta". Opening on 29 September at St. James's Theatre, the play was very well received and reviewed, running for sixty nights.
REFERENCE:Eckel 154; Gimbel A26
Property from the Workman Collection
Dickens, CharlesThe Strange Gentleman; A Comic Burletta, in two acts. By "Boz." First performed at the St. James's Theatre, on Thursday, September 29, 1836. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
8vo (170 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispiece illustration by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"); a few stray spots. Rebound in crushed red morocco, covers with gilt rules, spines with raised bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with decorative gilt device, original wrappers bound in; some minor soiling to wrappers, small area of marginal restoration to upper wrapper, a couple creases to lower wrapper.
First edition, with the rare frontispiece—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 based on "The Winglebury Duel" in Sketches by Boz, and was a vehicle for the author's friend, the comic actor John Pritt Harley (see lot 118 for a presentation copy to Harley). The author's text was heavily revised during rehearsals and songs added to properly transform it into a "burletta". Opening on 29 September at St. James's Theatre, the play was very well received and reviewed, running for sixty nights.
REFERENCE:Eckel 154; Gimbel A26
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