The Drama Of Yesterday & To-Day By Clement Scott. In Two Volumes .

SCOTT, Clement 1841-1904.:

Published by London: Macmillan and Co Limited ; New York Macmillan Company, 1899

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Signed first edition. A very good two volume set. Vol. I. ; pp.8/[2pp.]/pp.607. Vol. II. :pp.8/[5pp.]/pp.581/[3pp. - Adverts] . Vol. II. , ends with; "Appendix: List of important plays produced in London between 1830 . and the end of the century." Original blind stamped blue cloth, lightly soiled. Each front board with 3 gilt Fleur-De-Lys . Edges rubbed and bumped. Spines faded and soiled. Endpapers foxed, with numerous newspaper cuttings. Ink written dedication to front free-endpaper: "To My good friend East a downright good fellow. from Clement Scott - 6 October 1899". Browning to margin of title-page (Vol. I.) . Otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout , just light browning to page edges. Page 607, torn and carefully repaired. G+ ** "Clement William Scott (6 October 1841 25 June 1904) was an influential English theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph and other journals, and a playwright, lyricist, translator and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century. His style of criticism, acerbic, flowery and (perhaps most importantly) carried out on the first night of productions, set the standard for theatre reviewers through to today. Scott accumulated enemies among theatre managers, actors and playwrights as years went on, picking quarrels with William Archer, Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw and others. After he gave a particularly ill-considered 1898 interview, in which he attacked the morals of theatre people, especially actresses, he was forced to retire as a theatre critic and his reputation and prospects suffered badly until, by the end of his life, he was impoverished." - Wikipedia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Drama Of Yesterday & To-Day By Clement Scott. In Two Volumes .
• Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co Limited ; New York Macmillan Company
• Publication Date: 1899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • THEATRE::19TH CENTURY