OVERHEARD IN ARCADY Robert Bridges 1st Ed. DROCH Comic Sketches SIGNED

Description: OVERHEARD IN ARCADY Robert Bridges 1st Ed. DROCH Comic Sketches SIGNED POB#48528TITLE: Overheard in ArcadyAUTHOR: Robert Bridges; Illustrated by Oliver Herford, F. G. Attwood, and A. E. Sterner PUBLISHER: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; Printed at Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding DATE: 1894 EDITION: First book edition. Signed by Author DESCRIPTION: 133 pages including illustrations, plates 20 cm CONDITION NOTES: Near FINE. Slightly darkened in the spine and some rubbing and minor bumping to tips. Some toning to endpapers. Excellent page and cover attachment. Pages clean without marks, creases, or tears. Bookplate simply states "Cherr" with a play on the name in a modernist modif. Inscribed and dated by author on the first fly page. BINDING: Full red cloth with top edge gilt..Originally published in Life under the signature Droch. A series of humorous and engaging one act plays, collected first here, involving in some way the author and providing amusing criticism of the author's recent work. An intriguingly indirect method of applying critical art which has only recently been revived as sketch comedy during the broadcast TV era. .Chapters (most with caricatures of the authors mentioned):W.D. Howells. -- Henry James. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich. -- Frank R. Stockton. -- Richard Harding Davis. -- F. Marion Crawford. -- Rudyard Kipling. -- George Meredith. -- Robert Louis Stevenson. -- J.M. Barrie. -- The home of romance. -- A little dinner in Arcady. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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