Epitaph on George Moore

London: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Unamed. A First Edition copy of this biographical work by Charles Morgan titled 'Epitaph on George Moore'. First Edition. Collated complete. Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 –1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 he was the president of International PEN. While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was often criticised for excessive seriousness, and is now rather neglected; he once claimed that the "sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun. It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars..." The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons"s Westwood is thought to be a caricature of him. The subject of this book, George Augustus Moore (1852 –1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. In a quarter cream cloth binding with marbled boards. Externally generally smart, with mild wear to the extremities, and minor bumping. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only some very light spotting. Very Good