Max Beerbohm — 2 Vols Around Theatres

London, William Heinemann, 1924 . Cloth. The limited first edition of Beerbohm"s celebrated theatrical criticism, complete in two volumes and retaining the scarce original dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  Complete in two volumes.  With the original unclipped dust wrappers.  This two-volume set contains a collection of Beerbohm's witty theatre reviews from the Saturday Review. An engaging contemporary record of the London stage, bringing together Beerbohm"s humorous and frequently incisive assessments of its leading personalities and productions, including a critique of Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet and his thoughts concerning the work of George Bernard Shaw. Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist and caricaturist, who was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Very light shelf wear to extremities. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrappers, smart. Slight edge wear to extremities, resulting in the odd small chip, closed tear, and crease. Light soiling to wraps and spines with the odd handling mark and spot. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.