Published by John Camden Hotten, London, 1870
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. W. R. Snow (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by the author and gifted to his grandson. A dozen short plays in various styles - the operatic, the sensational, the bombastic, the farcical, the burlesque, the pathetic, the domestic, the maritime, the 'shoppy', the fantastic and juvenile, etc.- designed for under-rehearsed and jovial amateur players, complete with music for piano, etc. Original pictorial cloth gilt over bevelled boards; a few spots but a very nice bright copy. Gilt titles on front board and spine, gilt decoration, a.e.g. 16 page publisher's catalog in the rear. signed. Book.