Shelfmark
Krr.3.01 - Krr.3.02
Author
Title
The life of Edmund Kean [by B.W. Procter].
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Edward Moxon, Dover Street., MDCCCXXXV. [1835] (London : Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars.)
Physical description
2 v. : port. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Pagination: xlvii, [1], 216 p., [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece); vii, [1], 280 p.
Note
Content page for v. 1 on pp. xlv-xlvii; for v. 2 on pp. v-vii.
Note
Frontispiece portrait of Edward Kean with his signature in facsimilie; frontispiece is signed "Edwards."
Note
Manufacturer's information taken from title-page verso.
Binding
Contemporary three-quarter reddish-brown leather binding with marbled paper covers; spine in five compartments divided by alternating blind and gold-tooled fillets, with volume numbers stamped in gilt, and black title-labels; turquoise headbands.
Copy-specific note
Correction in pencil to typographical error in v. 1, p. ix. Otherwise a clean copy.
Copy-specific note
Newspaper clipping, loosely inserted, between v. 2, pp. 180-181, on BBC1 on Isadora Duncan. Newspaper and date unidentified.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting half-title to both volumes.
Subject
Added entry--name
Moxon, Edward, 1801 - 1858 publisher.
Added entry--name
Bradbury & Evans printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B50360