Lot 1628
Shaw, George Bernard. The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed 'To the Hero of some pages of this volume, Robert Harcourt, from G. Bernard Shaw', original cloth, 8vo, London: Constable and Company, 1911
At the beginning of the twentieth century, several playwrights including George Bernard Shaw and Harley Granville Barker led a challenge to the system of statutory theatre censorship. They were supported by Robert Harcourt, M.P., whose parliamentary interventions persuaded the Prime Minster, H.H. Asquith, to establish an investigatory committee in 1909.
