Author: Charles Dickens Jr
Title: The Life of Charles James Mathews: Chiefly Autobiographical with Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1879. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work on the actor Charles James Mathews, written by the son of the noted author, Charles Dickens. The first edition. A two volume complete set.Illustrated with monochrome frontispieces and monochrome vignettes and one plate to 'Volume I' and two to 'Volume II&apos. Collated complete. This work provides an autobiographical account on the life of Charles James Mathews, edited by Charles Dickens Jr, the son of the noted author under the same name. Charles James Mathews was a popular actor of the Victorian actor and the son of another great actor, also named Charles Mathews. Charles Mathews the Younger however had a greater reputation than his father, excelling at light comedy. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, marks to the boards, very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and slight leans. Offsetting to the endpapers with an ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound with the odd page starting and the frontispiece to 'Volume II' tender. Pages very lightly age toned with occasional light spotting. Good . Ill.: Maclure & Macdonald; Charles Watkins. Good .

Keywords: First edition Charles Dickens Jr Charles James Mathews Actor Charles Dickens Jr Maclure & Macdonald; Charles Watkins


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