Description

Illustrated with 12 color plates and black-and-white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece, printed tissue-guards. 9¾x7¼, brown cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers. First UK trade edition. Quarto. 256 pages. Translated with an Introduction, by R. Farquharson Sharp. T, Original gilt decorated cloth, lettered in gilt.

Condition

Spine slightly sunned, a touch of wear to spine ends and corners and hinges slightly tender, no jacket; near fine.

Henrik Johan Ibsen  (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. (Wikipedia)

Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognized as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolor, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. (Wikipedia)