1902 Ulysses, A Drama in a Prologue and Three Acts

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

The seventh thousand of this play from English poet and dramatist Stephen Phillips, published in the same year as the first edition.

Enjoying considerable popularity in his early career, a theatrical production of this play was staged in its year of publication at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, with the opening night attended by the Royal Family, and various further members of the nobility and high society.

With an eight page publisher's catalogue to the rear, and the contemporary owner's inscription of Agnes Law, a member of the Law family, to the front free endpaper, dated 1902.

Charlotte Anne Law, often known as Lota Law, and Hugh Alexander Law, an Irish nationalist politician, hosted a number of important literary figures at the Law family home, Marble Hill House in Donegal, including W. B. and Jack Yeats, P.H. Pearse, William Orpen, G.K. Chesterton, George William Russell and Hilaire Belloc.