‘Their Majesties’ Servants’. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean
DORAN, John
Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe [from the Author's annotated copy]. [Large Paper Edition with plates in duplicate.]
LARGE PAPER EDITION IN ROXBURGHE BINDING; 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: John C Nimmo, 1888
Stock code: 45013
Price: £466.00
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, ON LARGE PAPER, with 3 copper-engraved portrait frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title in red and black, 47 fine copper-engraved portraits (all original tissue guards present), and 80 fine wood-engravings in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original Roxburghe binding of blue cloth boards, maroon cloth backs with new printed paper labels, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, a near fine copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 66) WITH ALL PLATES PRESENT IN TWO STATES: ON JAPANESE PAPER AND PLATE PAPER, AS INDIA PROOFS. With personal pictorial boookplate on front paste-downs, and 24pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1887) bound in at end of third volume.