The Life of Edwin Forrest. With Reminiscences and Personal Recollections.

First Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Black decorations on covers and spine. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2." 524 pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Edwin Forrest, complete. Two additional pages in back advertising other books published by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for a former owner's faint ink signature on a front flyleaf, light age toning, and a few small spots on the first few pages. Covers are very clean and intact except for darkening, slightly bumped corners, and slight rubbing and wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a biography about the life and career of Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), an American Shakespearean actor. Forrest was also a philanthropist who helped support emerging American actors and playwrights as well as retired actors. Authored by James Rees (1802-1885), an American playwright, author, and editor. Rees also wrote under the pseudonym, Colley Cibber. Notably, he was a lifelong friend of Forrest since "boyhood." Rees also writes in an introductory note that the frontispiece portrait of Forrest was engraved expressly for this book and was modeled after the last photograph for which he sat by F. Gutekunst. …