Around Theatres By Max Beerbohm Vol. II.

<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. viii, 492. Signatures: [A]4 B-Z8 AA-HH8 II6. Original cloth. Book label removed from volumes. The items are available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The works represent volumes 8-9 of Beerbohm’s Works (of 10 volumes, 1922-28) "limited to seven hundred and eighty sets, of which seven hundred and fifty are for sale and thirty for presentation." They contain articles which appeared in the Saturday review during twelve years, beginning in 1898. In ‘Macbeth’ (I, pp. 13-18, a review of a performance first published in the Fortnightly Review, 1 October 1898), Beerbohm invents passages from John Aubrey (on the ima