Author: HARDY Thomas
Title: The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall, at Tintagel in Lyonesse. A New Version of an Old Story arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act requiring no Theatre or Scenery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Macmillan,, 1923. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and a plate by the author, a little light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pictorial green cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Hardy's great Arthurian verse drama is unusual among his works in that the two illustrations - 'Tintagel Castle' as frontispiece (repeated in gilt on front board) and the castle's 'Great Hall' - are the work of the author himself. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Purdy, pp.227-231.

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