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The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington with Pictures of the Period in which She Lived
J. Fitzgerald Molloy
1884
Hurst and Blackett : London
7.5" by 5"
xiv, 293; viii, 284, [24]pp.
SUMMARY
Scarce first trade edition of this biographical work on the life and career of Irish actress Peg Woffington, complete in two volumes.
First Edition,Publishers' Original Binding,Scarce
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
First trade edition, published in the same year as a limited deluxe edition. Complete in two volumes. A scarce work.
Biographical sketch of the life and times of Peg Woffington, Irish actress and socialite of the Georgian era. She enjoyed a successful career in her life time, which inspired Charles Reade and Tom Taylor's play Masks and Faces, and a novel by Reade titled Peg Woffington. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy.
Illustrated with a frontispiece to vol. I.
With twenty-four leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear vol. II.
CONDITION
In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, faint marks to boards. Thomas Jefferson McKee's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
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Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
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often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
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