WHEN THE DEVIL WAS ILL; A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS.(SIGNED PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE SCULPTOR JACOB EPSTEIN)

First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Slight wear at head of spine, otherwise about very good. 101pp. Frontis portrait of author by Augustus John. The Playgoers' Theatre No. VI. Signed presentation from the author to the sculptor Jacob Epstein - 'To Jacob Epstein from Charles McEvoy Oct 27th 1908.' McEvoy wrote for films, he may have jnown Epstein through his brother Ambrose McEvoy, the distinguished painter. Charles Alfred McEvoy (1879-1929) was the brother of the painter, Arthur Ambrose McEvoy (1878-1927). Both were the sons of Charles Ambrose McEvoy (d. 1905), an Engineer, who was an acquaintance of the painter Whistler. Charles was also the father of Patrick McEvoy (1914-1941), a writer ("The Gorse and the Briar") and Christopher McEvoy (1912-1944), an illustrator (same work). Both died fighting the Nazis.