Henry Irving. Ellen Terry. A Book of Portraits.

£270 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The 19 mounted plates, and the title page, are coloured woodcuts and tinted drawings reproduced in half-tone, printed on semi-glossy wove paper that is white in some cases, beige in others, mounted on thick, dull, dark gray paper. No table of contents or other identification of subjects except for one identification of Irving [within the plate]. A photocopy of the contents page of another issue laid in. This is a hard book to codify: Kramer A History of Stone and Kimball (234a) indicates that this special issue, which he had not examined, is, per an ad in Publisher’s Weekly , limited to 100 copies, but neither of the issues that he, and Fletcher and Rood, Edward Gordon Craig. Bibliography C3(a), describe, correspond in all respects to this copy, or to each other. Covers slightly soiled. Hinges strained internally, but holding firmly. A near fine copy of an important and handsome book with brilliant illustrations.

• Year: 1899

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