Their Majesties Servants" Annals Of The English Stage From Thomas Betterton To Edmund Kean; Edited And Revised by Robert W. Lowe

London: John Nimmo, 1888. board_book. Scarlet three quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers. Teg. Near fine. 3 vols.. 436, 414, 428 pages. 25 1/2 x 17 1/2 cm. Fifty copper engraved portraits, each in two states (one on Japanese and the other on plate paper, as India proofs), separated by tissue guards and eighty mounted wood-engraved illustrations enraved by Del Orme & Butler. Index in each volume. Limited edition, copy 291 of 300. Bound by Dawson & Nicholson. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, bookplates of Joseph Harrison Brazier, joints and extremities occasionally rubbed, Vol.I front cover rehinged. Internally bright and clean. (Inventory #: 16872)