The stage and its stars past and present : a gallery of dramatic illustration and critical biographies of distinguished English and American actors from the time of Shakespeare till to-day
The stage and its stars past and present : a gallery of dramatic illustration and critical biographies of distinguished English and American actors from the time of Shakespeare till to-day
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Seller's Description:
Fair. Three volumes. Large folios. 11.5" x 17". Publisher's three quarter leather gilt. 48 plates. Ex-library copy with bookplate, stamp and name perforation on title page. Crack in the top joint of Volume One, leather is powdery, each plate with a small library stamp. Fair only. Large and heavy volume, postage at cost.
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Seller's Description:
Good only (perforation stamp on title page and all plates. covers on Vol 1 and front cover of Vol 2 are detached at hinges. lots of wear to leather over spine and corners. some wear to page edges and smudging in margins from use) 2 volumes. Burgundy cloth with leather at corners and over spine. Both in red library wrapper and slipcase. Volume 1: 104 pp + 56 bw photogravures. Volume 2: 114 pp + 56 bw photogravures. The photogravures all have tissue guards and are bound with unpaginated descriptive text on facing pages. The numbered text pages contain additonal bw illustrations. OVERSIZE GA2. Unusual in the portfolio edition, this set has seen some use. 106 full page photogravures from photographs and 400 engraved text portraits. Courtesy of Argonaut: "A rather thorough look at the stage and theater stars of the 19th century, showing them in costume and in scene from plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan, Schiller, et al. Includes Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Ellen Terry, and many others. As the subtitle states, "A Gallery of Dramatic Illustration and Critical Biographies of Distinguished English and American Actors from the Time of Shakespeare Till To-day."
