| Author: | LANE, Theodore [1800-1828] (illustrator) - EGAN, Pierce. |
| Title: | The Life of an Actor. Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-seven Characteristic Scenes Etched by Theodore Lane. |
| Publisher: | C.S. Arnold, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London, 1825 |
| Description: | Full red smooth calf over boards (manufactured approximately 1930), sides with rectangle and corner-pieces,spine richly gilt with 5 raised bands, leading edges of sides partly gilt, roll-tooled gilt inner fillets (hardcover), 24,5 x 16 cms., marbled endpapers, aquatint frontispiece, xvi, 272 pp. including 8 text-woodcuts (plus one in title-page) by John Thompson (1785-1866), 26 colour aquatint plates by Theodore Lane, all edges gilt. |
| Note: | First Edition. Bookplate of Mexborough mounted on pastedown. Year of publication [1825] erased. Two text-pages very slightly frayed. Edges of marbled endpapers browned. One plate shows a vague fold to blank edge. Generally in fine condition. |
| Book No: | 25689 |
