PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF HENRY IRVING. Two Volumes.

8vo. First edition. pp(2)XII(2)372 & VI(2)388 with tissue-guarded frontispieces, tissue-guarded and other plates in text, and index (in Vol. II); plate facing page 33 of Vol. I with facing facsimile Irving autograph on tissue. Some top edges uncut. Original uniform red cloth, backstrip and front cover titles and front cover medallion portrait in gilt. Backstrips a little faded, with some minor markings. No dust jackets. Endpapers of both volumes faintly toned and a little spotted; both front flyleaves with blindstamped "Hildebrand Harmsworth" between inscriptions "From" above and "to Lawrence Kellie Oct 8.24" below. Edges of text-blocks toned, top edges also dust-marked. Bindings holding firmly, contents generally clean and tight. VERY GOOD set with four newspaper cuttings and unused picture postcard - a portrait of Irving in Raphael Tuck & Sons "Real Photograph" series - loosely inserted. (Hildebrand Harmsworth 1872-1929: newspaper proprietor. Lawrence Kellie 1862-1932: singer and composer of popular song, composed music for works of many poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and Tennyson, and for Oscar Wilde's serenade "O Beautiful Star".) Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.…