The Playboy of the Western World

Limited first edition thus. 4to. Pp. 132, [3]. Frontis. Text in black and blue type, glossary. Bound in yellow buckram, title to spine gilt, decoration to front board blocked in gilt, yellow endpapers. In the publisher's slipcase with the original wraparound title band. Printed on Glastonbury Antique laid paper by the Dolmen Press and designed by Liam Miller for the members of the Imprint Society. Edited and with an introduction by Stanley Sultan with six full page coloured brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy. #1007/1950 copies printed, signed by the artist on limitation page.

Minor soiling to spine and slipcase, else Fine.

Three-act play dealing with a hero's progress, from timid weakling to paragon of bravery. Premiered on 26 January 1907 at the Abbey Theatre, where it was received with riotous disapproval.