London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1890

8vo, pp. 224. Original dark red boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Black endpapers. Leading edge uncut. Small bookseller’s label to front pastedown, some toning to text block, boards a little darkened and with some wear to spine ends. A well preserved copy.

FIrst edition. FRAGMENT FROM WILLIAM MACREADY ALS TIPPED IN AT FRONT ENDPAPERS. A biography of the eminent English actor William Charles Macready [1793-1873], a Drury Lane fixture until his farewell performance in Macbeth in 1851. A favourite of Dickens and Tennyson (who wrote him a sonnet on his retirement from the stage).