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BOOK: BRERETON, A., 'The Lyceum of Henry Irving', Lawrence and Buller. On title page, the author has written in his own hand, a quotation from Henry Irving in ink, and then a quotation from 'Hamlet' and then signed and dated March 1921. Ltd. ed. of 100 on Japanese vellum. This is no. 40. Brereton was Irving's personal secretary. He mentions his freemasonry, even alluding to the complexties of his relations to the group. It has been suggested that Irving ,as a very senior mason, knew secrets about the Whitechapel murders which he chose to conceal. According to this theory, Bram Stoker, who worked for Irving at the Lyceum, and went on thereafter to write 'Dracula', of course, alluded to the murders in that book. The boards of this volume are slightly 'splayed', but it is nevertheless in close to VG condition. Rare signed by the author.
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