Title: Memoirs of Robert William Elliston Comedian. Concluding Series. With Illustrations by "Phiz". [from the Library of American Playwright and Novelist George Barr Mccutcheon].
Description: London: John Mortimer, 1845. 1845. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green cloth with embossed decorations and ruled borders, titled in gilt between embossed ruled lines on the spine. The book is laid into a red cloth chemise housed in a matching cloth slipcase backed with a red leather spine, titled in gilt between raised bands. The corners and edges of the book's covers are bumped and there is a tear to the cloth along the top of the front joint. The edges and spine of the lightly rubbed slipcase are slightly darkened. ix, [1], & 554 untrimmed pages, illustrated with 2 plates by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne) and with 18 facsimile autographs in the text. The top edge of the front joint is cracked. The top edge of the book is soiled. The top corners of several pages are bumped. Good.
First edition.
From the library of American novelist and playwright George Barr McCutcheon with his attractive bookplate mounted on the front pastedown.
"In the following pages, the Memoirs of Elliston are continued and concluded..The epistolary correspondence of many distinguished individuals with the lessee and manager of Drury Lane Theatre, will doubtless be read with interest; and a further account of one of the most enterprising men who ever entered on theatrical life, is ventured with the hope, it may obtain some portion of fresh favour with those who have any curiosity in dramatic affairs." - from the Advertisement. Good .
Keywords: THEATRE; GEORGE RAYMOND; MEMOIRS OF ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON COMEDIAN; GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON; THEATER; STAGE; ACTOR; THEATRE MANAGER; DRURY LANE THEATRE; PHIZ; HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE; PLATES; FACSIMILE AUTOGRAPHS; LEATHER-BACKED SLIPCASE; FIRST EDITION; COR
- Book number: 97889
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