SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950).  The Quintessence of Ibsenism. London: Walter Scott, 1891.  

8vo. Original blue gilt-lettered cloth (slight wear to extremities, some minor soiling).

FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTARY COPY, with slip tipped to front free endpaper. "In the spring of 1890, the Fabian Society...was compelled to make shift with a series of papers put forward under the general heading 'Socialism in Contemporary Literature.'...I consented to 'take Ibsen"...William Morris, asked to read a paper on himself, flatly declined but gave us one on Gothic Architecture...my paper on Ibsen...was duly read at the St James's Restaurant on the 18th July 1890, under the presidency of Mrs. Annie Besant, and which was the first form of this little book" (Preface, pp.v-vi). Laurence A12.

[With:] SHAW. Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1914. 8vo. Original green gilt-lettered cloth, uncut. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SHAW on half-title: "To A.W. Evans from G. Bernard Shaw."