{"product_id":"hedda-gabler-henrik-ibsen-first-edition-copenhagen-gyldendal-1890","title":"Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen — First Edition, Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1890","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family:Garamond,'EB Garamond',Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.65;color:#111;max-width:820px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:bold;color:#A31D1D;line-height:1.4;margin-bottom:26px;\"\u003eIbsen’s Hedda Gabler in the first edition, a copy of the paper-covered issue with the front panel of its printed wrapper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIBSEN, Henrik.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHedda Gabler. Skuespil i fire akter.\u003c\/em\u003e Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel \u0026amp; Søn), printed by Græbes Bogtrykkeri, 1890. First edition, the Copenhagen trade issue. Octavo, pp. [4], 236, with the title (its verso announcing authorised English, German and French translations to appear at about the same time) and the fly-title with the cast list on its verso. Bound in the twentieth century in green marbled paper covers with a grey cloth spine, the upper panel of the original printed front wrapper laid down on the front cover. Halvorsen p. 102; PMM 375.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in Copenhagen and Kristiania on 16 December 1890 in an edition of 10,000 copies, with 150 more printed probably for critics and other recipients, at 3 kroner, or 4 kroner 35 øre in an elegant binding (\u003cem\u003eHenrik Ibsens skrifter\u003c\/em\u003e). Gyldendal also sent twelve copies to William Heinemann in London, who gave them a new title leaf and published them on 11 December to secure the English rights, so this Copenhagen issue followed the London copyright issue by five days. The present copy was issued in printed paper wrappers, and the front panel survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.14em;color:#111;border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom:4px;margin-top:26px;\"\u003eNotes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIbsen wrote \u003cem\u003eHedda Gabler\u003c\/em\u003e in Munich in 1890, and it was the last of his plays published while he lived abroad. Its heroine, the daughter of the late General Gabler, has just returned from her honeymoon with Jørgen Tesman, a research fellow in cultural history. In under two days she burns the manuscript of Ejlert Løvborg’s new book, puts one of her father’s pistols into his hands, and at last turns the second on herself. Ibsen explained the title to his French translator, Count Moritz Prozor, on 4 December 1890, twelve days before publication. He meant it “to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father’s daughter than as her husband’s wife,” and he had wanted “to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day” (\u003cem\u003eLetters of Henrik Ibsen\u003c\/em\u003e, 1905, no. 219).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the first Scandinavian reviewers found Hedda incomprehensible, even monstrous, and the premiere at the Residenztheater in Munich on 31 January 1891, which Ibsen attended, divided its audience. The play held the stage all the same. \u003cem\u003ePrinting and the Mind of Man\u003c\/em\u003e chose it to represent Ibsen “as possibly his most frequently performed play in the modern theatre” (PMM 375), and Michael Meyer judged it “perhaps the most universally admired of Ibsen’s plays, the most frequently performed (in England, at any rate)” (\u003cem\u003eHenrik Ibsen\u003c\/em\u003e, III, 1971, pp. 158–59).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good. A sound copy in a plain later binding with modern endpapers. The mounted front wrapper panel is soiled and spotted. Ownership inscription of Valérie Loewy at the head of the title, with a pencilled number at upper right. The paper is lightly and evenly toned with a few scattered spots, and the text is otherwise clean. Only the front wrapper panel is preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-size:12px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.14em;color:#111;border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom:4px;margin-top:26px;\"\u003eReferences\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ. B. Halvorsen, \u003cem\u003eBibliografiske Oplysninger til Henrik Ibsens Samlede Værker\u003c\/em\u003e (Copenhagen, 1901), p. 102; \u003cem\u003eHenrik Ibsens skrifter\u003c\/em\u003e, vol. 9 (2009), with V. Ystad’s introduction and C. Janss’s textual account (online edition, University of Oslo); J. Carter and P. H. Muir, \u003cem\u003ePrinting and the Mind of Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), 375; M. Meyer, \u003cem\u003eHenrik Ibsen. The Top of a Cold Mountain, 1883–1906\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1971), pp. 158–59; \u003cem\u003eLetters of Henrik Ibsen\u003c\/em\u003e, trans. J. N. Laurvik and M. Morison (New York, 1905), no. 219, p. 435.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-style:italic;margin-top:22px;\"\u003eHedda Gabler, her father’s daughter, in the first edition of December 1890.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;color:#555;margin-top:26px;\"\u003eOffered by Atelier Zweig LLC. Shipped insured, with signature on delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48422622298300,"sku":"AZ-2609-01a","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/1310198.jpg?v=1791485663","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/hedda-gabler-henrik-ibsen-first-edition-copenhagen-gyldendal-1890","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}