1868-1897 GEORGE MACDONALD. Small Archive of Letters and Artifacts by C. S. Lewis' "Master."

A fine assemblage collected by a life-time pursuer of all things MacDonald. These are the last pieces of an extensive collection of rare MacDonald letters, books, and manuscripts. Long placed in important public and private collections, these are the pieces our collector retained until the very end . . .  1. MacDonald, George. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623. London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1885. First Edition. 277pp. Very scarce in any state and only issued in one edition. This example boldy inscribed on the ffep entirely in MacDonald's large, liquid script, "Loraine Estridge with kindest regards from George MacDonald. March 23, 1897."  George MacDonald wrote, “By this edition of Hamlet I hope to help the student of Shakespeare to understand the play—and first of all Hamlet himself, whose spiritual and moral nature are the real material of the tragedy, to which every other interest of the play is subservient.”  George MacDonald l