SCOTT, Clement.
Madonna Mia and Other Stories.
Inscribed on the half-title “Yours sincerely / Clement Scott / 6 Oct 1901.“
Known primarily as the influential theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph from 1870 to 1898, Scott was also a successful dramatist, though he wrote little fiction. He established the new custom of reviewing first-night performances rather than waiting until a production gelled and set himself up in opposition to the Ibsen/Shaw school and became so intemperate about their morality that his career collapsed. In the present context he is interesting for having been Greening’s first published author, in 1897.
Some uneven splashmarks to the spine, and with some of the colour in the interesting bust portrait of the Madonna of the title on front corner chipped away, though the portrait remains largely intact.
