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Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: Doubleday & McClure. Good plus condition: cracked; tips rubbed; box stained, goudged/No Dustjacket. 1899. 12mo., li, 298 pp. . Good plus condition: cracked; tips rubbed; box stained, goudged/No Dustjacket.
Published by Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1899
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾. Book. 298 pp. Account of famous English actress of eighteenth century, when a career in the theater was considered ignominious, and Peg Woffington, who was very much a real person, conquered that society. This edition is especially charming for its ornately decorated binding featuring butterflies, the muses, etc. and also Hugh Thomson's interior illustrations.
Published by George Allen, London, UK, 1899
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated By Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 298 pages. No dustjacket. Clean bottle-gree hardback binding with dulled gilt-coloured butterfly motifs with pictures of cherubs and young lady with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Noticeable forward lean to hardback binding. Page-edges gilt. Pages clean and tidy.
Published by George Allen, London, 1899
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Decorated grey cloth boards with a little rubbing on the spine edges and corners, foxing mostly on the free end papers, crease on the first couple of pages, bottom couple of inches of the front inner hinge cracked. The first edition with this illustrator and introduction of a previously published book.
12mo.; red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, hardcover; li, 298 pages with gilt top edge; black and white illustrations; edgeworn boards with spine ends fraying with spine sunned else good.
Published by George Allen, London, 1899
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). First Edition. Gilt decorative buckram cloth hardcovers. Unopened (ie. gatherings have not been slit). Edges uncut. This is the large-paper edition of 200 copies on hand-made paper. Slight rubbing to covers, and a little sunning to spine. Some moisture and bumping to lower fore-corners, with attendant staining to same part of endpapers and a few leaves, front and rear. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated. lii,298p. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Condition: Very Good. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, pp. [lii], [298] + numerous b/w vignettes and full-page illustrations by Thomson (title without tissue guard). Green cloth lettered and ornately (and theatrically) decorated in gilt to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Slight lean and sunning to spine, bruising and gentle wear to extremities, a little scuffed, bump to bottom board. Front and rear foxed, pencil POI to half-title, else, clean, tight and bright. A very good copy of the attractive Thomson-illustrated edition of Reade's popular novel. During her short life, Margaret Woffington (1720-1760) dominated the Georgian Dublin and London stages in comic and cross-dressed roles, with her breeches part as Sir Henry Wilder causing a storm at the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane. Known professionally as Peg, the Irish actor (initially apprenticed to Madame Sovre, a tightrope artist) was professionally, socially and financially canny. She successfully navigated socialite circles and affairs with aristocrats (plus a lengthy one with David Garrick), and never relinquished financial control (by never marrying), allowing her to raise and support her sister Mary and provide a pension for her mother. Reade's original 1853 novel was based on his play Masks and Swags (1852, with Tom Taylor); it spawned various film versions during the silent era.