cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

In the same place Ibsen has also described how the sanguine expectations for Catiline
were violently disappointed, as the Christiania Theatre regretted that the piece was not
suited for production, next no publisher could be found, and it was finally printed, by
Schulerud's tireless and sacrificing help with contributing the means for it, in a "single
edition." 32 copies of the little book found a market, and after the lapse of some time the
rest of the edition was sold by the printer as waste paper to a huckster. "In the
immediately following days we lacked for nothing of life's most urgent necessities," says
Ibsen in the preface. The new edition of 1875 is printed in at least three issues, in several
thousand copies.
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