Prefaces / by Bernard Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Contributor:

Farleigh, John, 1900-1965.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Beverley, J. Cunliffe (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 802 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First omnibus edition.

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark Limited.

Place of Publication:

London : Constable and Company Limited, [1934]

Notes:

With half-title.

Wood-engraved pictorial title by John Farleigh consisting of a "multi-tiered design that incorporated Cedric Hardwicke as King Magnus and Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, plus Androcles and the Lion, Don Juan in Hell, Mrs. & Mrs. Everyman, and the Black Girl springing Minerva-like from Shaw's head, besides the figures of the printer (William Maxwell) and the publisher (Otto Kyllmann) supporting the imprint at the foot of the design."--Cf. Laurence.

"First published 1934."

Contains all the prefaces to all of Shaw's published plays in addition to postscripts provided for many of the prefaces in the 'Collected Edition, 1930-32,' as well as nine new postscripts, dated 1933.

Includes index.

Printed in double columns.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection has name of J. Cunliffe Beverley, Great North Rd., Brookmans Park.

Cited in:

To Introduce the Prefaces -- Sociological [1-11] -- Political [12-18] -- Religious [19-22] -- Autobiographical and professional [23-35] -- Miscellaneous [36-37].

Laurence, D. H. Bernard Shaw: a bibliography, A220

OCLC:

6930563