Et Dramatisk Digt
Peer Gynt Et Dramatisk Digt
Gydendalske Boghandel (F. Hegel), 1867.
First edition. Contemporary half black morocco over morocco grained cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering and four raised gilt decorated bands to the spine. A very good, tall and unusually fresh copy, with just a little wear to the boards and extremities. Hinges cracking, but holding.
Printed in a first edition of just 1,250 copies in 1867, Peer Gynt initially enjoyed great success; "Hegel [Ibsen's publisher] sent word that the first edition of 1,250 copies had sold out almost at once, and that a second edition of 2,000 was in the press". (Michael Meyer, 'Ibsen').
According to Francis Bull the play 'ranks still higher than any of his "realistic" plays, and may be mentioned in the same breath as such literary treasures as Hamlet, Faust, and Don Quixote' ('Ibsen - the Man and the Dramatist').
Copies of the first edition are incredibly rare in commerce. Only three copies are recorded by ABPC since 1975, and in the same period Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise für Bücher lists only four copies.
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