Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1936, First Edition, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham This is a five-act play written in verse and is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed Peer Gynt, the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted on fact, and several of the characters are modelled after his own family, notably his parents. The play has been adapted for both the stage and film and is celebrated in an annual festival in Vinstra in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. The composer Edward Grieg also composed incidental music for the play in a score that plays for approximately ninety minutes. The handsomely bound book is beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham with twelve full page, tissue-guarded colour plates and several line drawings in the text. This is a First Edition in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards are beautifully bound in half brown leather, raised bands and bright gold lettering. There is some rubbing to the edges of the front boards. The decorated end papers and pages are clean without marks, tears or inscriptions. The top edge retains its original gold tint. Will be dispatched by courier, fully insured, carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.