Vincent Crummles: His Theatre and his Times

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.

BINDING

Quarter bound black and pale blue cloth boards. Title patch on spine is partly worn away,

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are quite worn and scuffed. Corners bumped and some general discolouration. Binding a little weak but secure. Edges of opened pages are rather uneven. Some browning to outer leaves but printed pages and illustrations are mainly clear and little marked. Tissue guard to frontispiece intact.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
Limited edition of 400 copies, 1926.

DESCRIPTION
Hand coloured frontispiece with tissue guard. Fifteen further black and white plates of mainly contemporary engravings. 300 pp. Octavo.

SYNOPSIS
A life of Dickens' ebullient Actor Manager, who took Nicholas Nickleby under his wing. An introduction placing his character in the real life Victorian theatre, followed by a long extract from the novel.