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IBSEN, Henrik. BRAND. Et dramatisk Digt. Chicago: Markus & Kalheim, 1890. Small 8vo; original two-tone cloth; backstrip rubbed and darkened; some fraying to cloth at hinges and spine ends; text leaves a bit tanned at edges; title in gilt to upper cover. $40
This Chicago edition, in the original Norwegian, predates any English translation of Ibsen’s first major drama.

IBSEN, Henrik. CATILINA. Drama.... Anden og Gennemarbejdet Udgave. København: Gyldendalske, 1875. Small 8vo; original decorative cloth, gilt; a. e. g.; contents fine. $90

This edition of Ibsen's first drama was issued on 20 March, 1875, to mark the playwright's 47th birthday and celebrate his 25 years of authorship. Ibsen produced a new, very personal forward for this edition.

IBSEN, Henrik. HAERMAENDE På HELGELAND, Skuespil.... København: Gyldendalske, 1873. Small 8vo; half roan, worn; contents good. $50

The second edition of The Vikings of Helgeland, first published as a special supplement to the magazine Illustreret Hyhedsbland in 1857. Said at the time by Bjorn Bjornson to be "the best play yet written in Norway," it is still considered by many second only to Peer Gynt amongst Ibsen's poetic dramas.

IBSEN, Henrik. KEJSER OG GALILAEER. Et Verdenhistorik Skuespil.... København: Gyldendalske, 1873. First Edition. Contemporary half calf; decorative gilt spine; a fine copy. $200
The first edition of Emperor and Galilean, considered by Ibsen to be his masterpiece. §Halvorsen, p. 48.

IBSEN, Henrik. KEJSER OG GALILAEER. Et Verdenhistorik Skuespil.... København: Gyldendalske, 1873. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt; spine worn; corners frayed; joints splitting; some foxing. $125

The first edition of Emperor and Galilean. Although later dismissed by some commentators, Ibsen always considered this his masterpiece. Those who rejected it failed to remember it was written, like Brand, for the reader. §Halvorsen, p. 48.

 IBSEN, Henrik. THE LADY FROM THE SEA. Translated, with the Author’s Permission, by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. With Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. Small 8vo; blue-paper boards; vellum-paper spine; binding a bit skewed; shelf worn at foot; corners bumped; spine sunned and chipped at foot; spotting to endpapers; frontispiece, with tissue guard; t.e.g. $30
The first English translation of Ibsen’s Fruen fra Havet (1888). The translator was the daughter of Karl Marx. One of the titles in Unwin’s Cameo series.

IBSEN, Henrik. PEER GYNT. A Dramatic Poem. Authorised Translation by William and Charles Archer. London: Walter Scott, n. d. [c. 1890]. First English Edition. Original cloth; very good. $35

The appendix traces the history and retelling of the Peer Gynt legend.

IBSEN, Henrik. THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY, AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited With an Introduction, by Havelock Ellis. London: Walter Scott, 1888. Small 8vo; publisher's cloth, soiled; paper label, sunned; short tear to one leaf; contents very good. $70

The first of Ibsen's dramas to appear in book form in English. The plays are Pillars of Society, Ghosts, and Enemy of Society. The first two works are translations by William Archer, and the third by Eleanor Marx Aveling (daughter of Karl Marx).

IBSEN, Henrik. SAMFUNDETS STøTTER. Skuespil.... København: Gyldendalske, 1877. Small 8vo; contemporary half roan, worn; minor dusting to margins of text. $125

The first edition of Pillars of Society. §Halvorsen, p. 51.

IBSEN, Henrik. SAMFUNDETS STøTTER. Skuespil.... København: Glyndendalske, 1877. First Edition. Small 8vo; contemporary half leather, rubbed at extremities; sporadic light foxing. With the ownership inscription of Jacob Hegel. $250

The first edition of Pillars of Society, the first of Ibsen's acclaimed series of social dramas. Jacob Hegel was Ibsen's publisher and counselor as well as the son of his dear friend Frederik Hegel. §Halverson, p.51.

IBSEN, Henrik. DE UNGES FORBUND. Lystspil.... Kjøbenhavn: Gyldendalske, 1869. First Edition. Small 8vo; disbound; light dust-soiling to title-page and terminal blank; else very good. $120
The first edition of The League of Youth, Ibsen’s five-act comedy. Uncommon.

IMBERT, [Barthélemy]. LE JALOUX SANS AMOUR, Comedie.... Paris: Lambert & Baudouin, Delalain and Duchesne, 1781. First Edition. Disbound; slight dusting to half-title. $30
A five-act comedy in blank verse, first performed by the Comédiens François in January 1781.

[IRVING, Henry.] A large lithographed portrait of Irving, inscribed and signed. [London]: Arthur Lucas, 1885. 17" x 23 1/2", plus wide margins; slight d early beveled wooden frame and glazed. $250

A rather handsome three-quarters length profile portrait, signed and inscribed by Irving in pencil and also signed byusting; in the artist and publisher.

[IRVING, Henry.] A color-printed portrait of Irving by Mortimer Menpes, [c. 1902]. 3 1/2" x 6 1/4"; very good. $10

A bust portrait in profile.

[IRVING, Henry.] A small, lithographed bust portrait of Irving by A. Raulden, 1905. 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" card mount; inscribed to the reverse. $15

The portrait carries a presentation inscription from the artist to the reverse.

[IRVING, Henry.] A cabinet photograph of Irving, [c. 1885]. A bit of foxing. $22
A bust portrait, in profile.

[IRVING, Henry.] A sepia cabinet photograph of Irving. London: Walery, [c. 1895]. Slight spotting (in the negative). $25

A half-length portrait of the actor, seated.

[IRVING, Washington.] LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT. By the Author of The Sketch Book. With a Biographical Notice. Second Edition. London: Effingham Wilson, 1824. Original brown wraps, foxed; some wear to backstrip and cover edges; early holograph text to verso of front wrapper; contemporary owner’s inscription to head of title-page. $100
The same year as the first edition (New York) of this pirated collection of Irving’s earliest sketches, published in The Morning Chronicle in 1802 (when the author was 19), no doubt to capitalize on the popularity of The Sketch Book. A fair portion of these letters related to the early New York theatre, Irving extending his commentary beyond just the plays and performers to the audience and critics as well.

[JANAUSCHEK, Francesca.] A photogravure portrait of Janauschek as Marie Antoinette in the play of the same name. [New York]: Gebbie, 1887. 8" x 12 1/4", plus full margins; minor stains to outermost margins; image very good. $12

A full-length portrait of the actress, seated, in wig and elaborate costume.

[JOLY, Adrien J. Baptiste.] An original pencil and watercolor costume design by Joly, signed, [c. 1830]. 4 1/2" x 7"; slight traces of surface soiling; very good colors; tipped to a later mount. $225

A fine theatrical costume design of a male actor in Renaissance dress. It is perhaps identified at the head, but in pencil now too faint to make out. Joly (1772-1839) was a Parisian actor, dramatist, and stage designer. At first a military officer, from 1802 he successfully dedicated himself to the stage. Over the next 30 years he also created numerous costume and stage designs, as well as sketches of scenes from theatrical life.

JONES, Henry Arthur. THE RENASCENCE OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA. Essays, Lectures, and Fragments Relating to the Modern English Stage.... London: Macmillan, 1895. Red cloth; very good. $40

A series of essays in which Jones sets out to establish the drama as an art (separate from popular entertainments) and to fight for "sanity and wholesomeness, for largeness and breadth of view," primarily in playwriting. §LAR 3732.

JONES, Robert Edmund. DRAWINGS FOR THE THEATRE. The Introduction by Arthur Hopkins. New York: Theatre Arts, 1925. 4to; original boards, lightly soiled and worn at edges; corners worn and rounded; spine reinforced with binder's tape; paper labels to cover and spine; adhesion mark and small inked stamp to rear pastedown; numerous plates with illustrations to rectos only; text and plates very good. $35

A record of ten years' work in the theatre, consisting of plates representing 35 of Jones' designs and projects preceded by Hopkins' 16-page introduction.

[JONSON, Ben.] A line-engraved portrait of Jonson, "in the collection of Dr. Mead." London: n. p., 1785. 8" x 11 1/4", plus ample margins; gentle creasing. $40

This portrait, "engraved for Harrison's Edition of Rapin," depicts the playwright half length in partial profile. Oval within decorative frame.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A naïve pencil-and-watercolor copy of a juvenile drama portrait of an actor in the role of Robinson Crusoe, [c. 1835]. 4 1/2” x 5 3/4”; one gentle horizontal crease; light soiling. $35

Presumably executed by a juvenile artist, this watercolor after a penny-plain portrait shows Crusoe standing, legs apart, on a tropical beach. He holds a musket over his shoulder and grasps an axe in his left hand.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A naïve pencil-and-watercolor copy of Johnson’s juvenile drama portrait, “Gallot as the Tiger of the Black Sea,” [c. 1835]. 4 1/4” x 5 1/4”; mounted to a portion of a contemporary album leaf. $35

Presumably executed by a juvenile artist, this watercolor after a penny-plain portrait shows a pirate on the deck of a ship, smoke and explosions behind him. He holds a sword in his right hand and a pistol in his extended left hand. His costume is festooned with skulls and crossbones.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A penny-plain sheet, “Hodgson’s Characters in The Cataract of the Ganges. Procession.” London: Hodgson & Co., [c. 1832]. Minor dusting and wear to margins; 1/2” tear to edge at head; image very good. $65
A pair of mounted lancers in Eastern costume and decorative equipage to their mounts. Moncrief’s equestrian spectacle premiered at Drury Lane in 1823.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A hand-colored sheet, "Mathews' Scenes in The Miller and His Men. No. 9." Acton: H. Mathews, [c. 1895]. Colors bright. $25

This plate shows perhaps the most famous scene in the English juvenile drama, the explosive destruction of the mill.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.]  A pair of chromolithographed sheets, "Patio de Casa" and "Bastidores de Patio de Casa." Barcelona: Paluzie, [c. 1900]. Each 15 1/4"x 11 1/2"; gentle vertical central crease to each. $40

The backdrop and sidewings to a house's courtyard for the Spanish toy theatre.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.]  A complete set of character sheets, and one scene sheet, of "Pollock's Characters & Scenes in the Brigand." London: B. Pollock, [c. 1890(?)]. Near fine. $65

The seven character sheets to Pollock's adaptation of Planche's melodrama, with scene 7 -- a formal garden overlooking an Italian city.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A chromolithographed stage curtain. [Mainz: Scholz, c. 1870.] 15” x 12”, plus margins; bright; near fine. $40
An extravagant green and red curtain with a pink drop curtain decorated with a pair of putti.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A pair of large chromolithographed sheets, backdrop and sidewings for “Zimmer.” [Essingen]: J.F. S[chreiber], [c. 1900]. 21” x 16”; minor toning to margins; else fine. $30
The interior of a parlor including a fireplace.

[JUVENILE DRAMA.] A half-penny sheet, “Skelt’s Scenes in The Battle of Waterloo. No. 11.” London: M. & B. Skelt, [c. 1845]. Impression a bit light. $18
A mill in the foreground and tents in a hill encampment in the background.