About Edwin Drood. [With an introductory note by Alan Anderson] - printer's corrected proofs

Andrew LANG & M. R. JAMES

Published by Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1983

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Printer's corrected proofs: 21 sheets, printed rectos only, wrapped in a Chapman & Hall Drood frontispiece (not used), all pages present except half-title and limitation page; two pages with Alan Anderson's corrections (one making substantive alterations to his introductory note, p. [5]), two variant title-pages and two variant pp. [5]. The published edition was limited to 115 numbered copies. Following up his 1905 book The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot, Andrew Lang addresses the mystery of Charles Dickens's Edwin Drood in a Sherlock Holmes-Dr Watson parody dialogue. "'You are a very fair bat, Whatson,' said Sheerot. 'But you are not quick between wickets as an inductive reasoner.'" Lang's immediate target was Professor Herbert Jackson's short monograph of inquiry, About Edwin Drood (by "H.J.", 1911). His "A Dialogue" was first printed in The Cambridge Review, 2 March 1911, the year before his death; the review by M.R. James of About Edwin Drood also printed here (a "brilliant study") appeared the same month, in The Cambridge Review's following number.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: About Edwin Drood. [With an introductory note by Alan Anderson] - printer's corrected proofs
• Publisher: Edinburgh: Tragara Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Binding: No Binding
• Condition: Near Fine
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