Renown at Stratford; Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded; Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Grant MacDonald; Tanya Moiseiwitsch. The 3 volumes of the first 3 years (1953, 1954, 1955) of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. 1. Guthrie, Tyrone and Robertson Davies. Renown at Stratford. ill. Grant MacDonald. Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1953. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Near Fine / Fair. A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, 1953. This was the inaugural year of the Stratford Festival which has been going strong ever since. Pieces by Tyrone Guthrie, the great British director and Robertson Davies in the years before his international acclaim as a writer. Remarkable drawings of the players by Grant MacDonald a renown painter. Of the players that year was Alec Guinness and the about to be great writer Timothy Findley. Also of note is that the colophon states: This book is the first book produced in Canada, without type. A near fine book in a tattered dust Jacket. 2. Guthrie, Tyrone and Robertson Davies. Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded. ill. Grant MacDonald. Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1954. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Near Fine / Very Good. A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, 1954. Again as in the first Record (1953), pieces by Tyrone Guthrie, the great British director and Robertson Davies. Stunning work of the players by Grant MacDonald a renown Canadian painter. Of the players that year was James Mason, Bruno Gerussi and William Shatner (Captain Kirk!). A near fine book with a gift and ownership inscription in a very good dust jacket that has some edge wear and 2 cm closed tear at bottom left front. 3. Guthrie, Tyrone and Robertson Davies. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. ill. Tanya Moiseiwitsch. Toronto: Clark, Irwin and Company, 1955. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Very Good / Very Good. A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, 1954. A very good book with a slight lean and two minor stains on front paste down and FFEP. Very good dust jacket with a small chip and edge wear at top. All 3 volumes together will be considered [OVERSIZE].