Una casa de muñecas; El pato salvaje; Un enemigo del pueblo
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 996
Author
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Title
Una casa de muñecas; El pato salvaje; Un enemigo del pueblo
Statement of responsibility
Translated by Else Wasteson; preliminary note by F. S. R.
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
M. Aguilar, Editor
Collection
Colección Crisol; number 129
Printer
Gráficas “Orbe”, S. A., Padilla, 82, Madrid
Date
1945
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: M. Aguilar, Editor, 1945
Language
Spanish
Original work
Et dukkehjem; Vildanden; En folkefiende
Original language
Norwegian
Author of the original work
Henrik Ibsen
Translator
Else Wasteson
Print run
Edition belonging to Aguilar’s Colección Crisol; no indication of limited printing or numbered copies observed
Collation
657 pages
Illustrations
Photogravure portrait of Henrik Ibsen as frontispiece
Format
12mo
Dimensions
12.4 x 8.5 cm
Typographic signatures
Ibsen.-42 on final page
Paper type
Thin bible paper characteristic of Aguilar post-war editions; satin-finished industrial paper of low grammage
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Compact serif typography; clean and uniform printing
Binding type
Publisher’s full flexible leather binding
Colours
Dark blue with gilt stamping
Decoration
Covers with geometric blind and gilt tooling; spine decorated with fillets and art déco composition
Spine
Gilt-decorated spine with abbreviated title and vertical linear motifs
Content description
Volume bringing together three fundamental dramas by Henrik Ibsen: “A Doll’s House”, “The Wild Duck” and “An Enemy of the People”. The works address issues of social criticism, bourgeois morality, individual freedom and the conflict between truth and society, constituting essential texts of modern European theatre
Note 1
Spanish post-war edition published within Aguilar’s celebrated Colección Crisol
Note 2
Includes a preliminary biographical and critical note on Henrik Ibsen
Note 3
Preserves the author’s frontispiece portrait
Note 4
Copy entirely printed in Spain according to the publisher’s colophon
Note 5
Original Aguilar publisher’s binding
Main subject
Modern Norwegian theatre
Subtopics
Psychological drama; social criticism; feminism; nineteenth-century European theatre; theatrical realism; Scandinavian literature
Shelfmark
996
Condition
Good; slight abrasion to the spine and minor traces of use; clean and solid interior
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves the original publisher’s binding and photographic frontispiece