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FIRST EDITION, very faint spotting to prelims recurrent at final text-page and facing blank, pp. 180, foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt with gentle fading and minor rubbing at ends, spine slightly cocked, border and publisher device in blind to lower board, a.e.g., contemporary gift inscription to blank preceding half-title and later ownership inscription to flyleaf, front hinge starting but secure, good. The attractive red cloth edition of one of the most enduring works by the Norwegian dramatist; the edition was issued simultaneously in various colours of cloth.

A three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen, premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms.