{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-philip-dadd-illustrator-william-tell-told-again","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G.; Philip DADD ( illustrator ). William Tell Told Again.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Tell\u003ci\u003e in Prose and Verse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.; Philip DADD (\u003ci\u003eillustrator\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e William Tell Told Again. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Adam and Charles Black.\u003c\/i\u003e 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Publisher’s beige pictorial cloth, spine and boards illustrated in green and brown and lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt; pp. vii, [1], 106, [2 (advertisements)]; 16 colour plates by Philip Dadd including frontispiece, with tissue guards; printer’s device in red to title; spine ends bumped, light wear to corners, some spotting to rear board; uniform light spotting; else very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, first printing of Wodehouse’s fourth novel: a humorous retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse, with illustrations by Philip Dadd (1880–1916).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWodehouse recasts the familiar William Tell legend in his characteristically playful prose, using mock-heroic language, archaic expressions, and deliberately incongruous contrasts to puncture the grandeur of the original tale. The book was dedicated ‘for a Christmas present’ to Biddy O’Sullivan, the daughter of Wodehouse’s friend, the actor and singer Denis O’Sullivan (1869–1908). Each of Dadd’s illustration is accompanied by a verse description by John W. Houghton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the collection of eminent Wodehouse authority and collector Tony Ring, former President of the International Wodehouse Association and former editor of \u003ci\u003eWooster Sauce\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A5a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126127\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900399137145,"sku":"2126127","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126127b.jpg?v=1792136653","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-philip-dadd-illustrator-william-tell-told-again","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}