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Gr.-8° (22.8 x 14.8 cm). 77 SS. Typographisch sorgfältiger, transparenter Schriftsatz in 8-Punkt Antiqua, Druck a. Bütten (unbeschnitten; Wasserzeichen 'Abbey Green'). OBrosch. (grau; marginal etwas knittrig). Schnitt etwas, Seiten v.a. marginal unterschiedlich stockfleckig (äusserste Lagen mehr) / bound in gray paper wrappers (with private transparent dust jacket); edges somewhat, pages differently foxing (mainly margins, first and last sheets more). Etwas Alters- u. Lagerungs-, weniger eigentliche Gebrauchsspuren, im Titel von Masefield voll signiert und datiert. Gesamthaft sehr ordentliches Exemplar / Some traces of age and storing, less of use, on title page signed and dated 'John Masefield 16. VI. 1916'. In all rather good copy. - - Simmons 29: 'Published not later than August 1916' - Eines von 200 (unnummerierten) Exemplaren / 'This edition is limited to 200 copies' (half title verso), resp. 'This play was first printed in The Fortnightly Review for December, 1915' (p. 77) - Erscheinungsabfolge u. -Formen sind nicht ganz klar. Möglicherweise erschien die Erste (Buch-Separat-) Ausgabe unter dem Titel 'Good Friday : A Dramatic Poem' 1915 bei The Macmillan Company, New York 1915 (cf. archive org mit Vermerk: 'The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item'; cf. Simmons 28) - Die vorliegende Version könnte eine Vorzugsausgabe sein der Ausgabe mit Impressum 'Published by John Masefield at Lollingdon Cholsey, Berkshire, Printed at Letchworth by the Garden City Press Ltd. 1916, Copyright in U.S.A.' (archive org). - Frühe Sammelausgaben erschienen im Februar 1916 unter dem Titel 'Good Friday and Other Poems' (156 SS.; NY, The Macmillan Company; cf. archive org). - "As to Mr. Masefield's possession of genius there can be little serious dispute. As to some success he achieves in attempting to deal with so tremendous a theme as that of his dramatic poem, 'Good Friday', there may well be a difference of opinion. The theme - nothing less than the Crucifixation - may seem to many minds to dwarf the art of the poet - though Mr. Masefield's poetry does not belittle the theme. [.] The disturbed mood of modern consciousness which views the problem of death and life after death with all the traditional awe and yearning, yet is profoundly troubled by the conceptions of science, now grown to be part of it, has not been expressed with more power and daring of imagination than in this and kindred sonnets of Mr. Masefield's." (Rezension von 'Good Friday and Other Poems', in: The North American Review. Vol. 203, No. 725, Apr. 1916, p. 631 f.). -- Letchworth in der Grafschaft Hertfordshire ist eine zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts von Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) gegründete Gartenstadt mit etwas Industrie u. Gewerbe. Dazu zählte das vom Londoner Buchbinder u. Verleger Joseph Malaby Dent (Darlington 1849-1926) gegründete und betriebene Druckerei- u. Verlagsunternehmen (u.a. 'Temple-', 'Aldine Press', '-Paperbacks', 'Temple Library' resp. '-Shakespeare', 'Everyman's Library' series). "Dent, largely self-educated, had firm ideas of what books were proper to publish and, indeed, how they should appear: neat and legible, printed on decent paper and handsomely presented in firm, bevelled cloth boards, in coveniently small format, in fact all that was sound and sensible, but attractive as well. He also created large paper editions of great beauty. [.] Dent pursued this policy of offering finely produced classics throughout the 1890s, and even with the special Large Paper issues, remained remarkably reasonable in his prices. He employed many of the artists of the day including: Rackham, Dulac, J.D. Batten, R. Anning Bell, Beardsley, Walter Crane, the families Charles, Thomas & William Heath Robinson & the brothers Brock. For editorial work, he employed Richard Garnett, George Saintsbury, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Israel and his sister Emma Gollancz, and, the name associated, for so many years with the company, Ernest Rhys.
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