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Pierce Egan : The Life of an Actor

Pickering and Chatto, London, 1892

contemporary full decorative gilt marbled calf with geometrical designed gilt tooled boarder, spine with 6 densly gilt compartments of raised bands, red morocco label on two and four, all edges gilt, marbled paste down and free end papers., Excellent condition., 8vo, P. half-title, printer’s note, blank, frontis, title, printer’s imprint, iii-xvi, 1-257., 27 handcoloured aquatint plates including the frontis, title in red and black and a printer’s device of an anchor is present.

“This amusing work, written by the author of the celebrated ‘Life in London,’ was first published in 1825. As it has been out of print a number of years – for it is one of the few of Pierce Egan’s books not reprinted – we have been tempted to re-issue it in a similar form to the original edition, with all the numerous illustrations faithfully facsimiled and coloured by hand.” (Printer’s Note)

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