SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: an interlude ... written for the Shakespear National Memorial Theatre . London: Constable and Co., 1910. Small 4° (169 x 115mm). Original grey printed wrappers, morocco-backed green cloth case. Provenance : presentation copy from George Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry (1847-1928, half-title inscribed 'to Ellen Terry from G.B.S. 28th. Feb. 1911'; upper cover with Ellen Terry's monogram) -- Frank J. Hogan (morocco label), sold in his sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 25 April 1945 for $160 (£40). 'ROUGH PROOF (REHEARSAL COPY).' PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE GREAT SHAKESPEAREAN ACTRESS OF HER DAY. Ellen Terry had delivered the first of her lectures on Shakespeare ('The Letters in Shakespeare') in 1903, successfully following this with two lectures on Shakespeare's heroines and another on children in Shakespeare. Because she was on a lecture tour of America at the time, she was unable to act in this short play of Shaw's, a plea for a national theatre. But she wrote to him on 7 February 1911, asking for a copy of this and one other play. 'No booksellers can be depended upon ... I'm starting for England on the 25th of this month. God knows how America will get on without me, and if you will secure me these things to read when I come home it will ensure work for James for he will save my eyesight.' Shaw duly forwarded this presentation copy on 28 February with a short letter reading: 'I send you a private and particular copy of The Dark Lady to keep; but the English Review reprint is in much larger type; so read it in that if James is off duty. When I went to coax you to play Queen Elizabeth I found that you were on the high seas on your way to America. Just like you to run away when I wanted you!' Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence , ed. Miss Christopher St. John, 1931, pp. 445-46). Three 'rough proof' states are known of the very rare first printing, this being Laurence's final state. Laurence AA3c: 'Printed 3 December 1910. 24 copies.'
SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: an interlude ... written for the Shakespear National Memorial Theatre . London: Constable and Co., 1910. Small 4° (169 x 115mm). Original grey printed wrappers, morocco-backed green cloth case. Provenance : presentation copy from George Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry (1847-1928, half-title inscribed 'to Ellen Terry from G.B.S. 28th. Feb. 1911'; upper cover with Ellen Terry's monogram) -- Frank J. Hogan (morocco label), sold in his sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 25 April 1945 for $160 (£40). 'ROUGH PROOF (REHEARSAL COPY).' PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE GREAT SHAKESPEAREAN ACTRESS OF HER DAY. Ellen Terry had delivered the first of her lectures on Shakespeare ('The Letters in Shakespeare') in 1903, successfully following this with two lectures on Shakespeare's heroines and another on children in Shakespeare. Because she was on a lecture tour of America at the time, she was unable to act in this short play of Shaw's, a plea for a national theatre. But she wrote to him on 7 February 1911, asking for a copy of this and one other play. 'No booksellers can be depended upon ... I'm starting for England on the 25th of this month. God knows how America will get on without me, and if you will secure me these things to read when I come home it will ensure work for James for he will save my eyesight.' Shaw duly forwarded this presentation copy on 28 February with a short letter reading: 'I send you a private and particular copy of The Dark Lady to keep; but the English Review reprint is in much larger type; so read it in that if James is off duty. When I went to coax you to play Queen Elizabeth I found that you were on the high seas on your way to America. Just like you to run away when I wanted you!' Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence , ed. Miss Christopher St. John, 1931, pp. 445-46). Three 'rough proof' states are known of the very rare first printing, this being Laurence's final state. Laurence AA3c: 'Printed 3 December 1910. 24 copies.'
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