ACTORS & ACTRESSES OF GREAT BRITAN & THE UNITED STATES

DAVID GARRICK AND HIS CONTEMPOARIES

Cassel & Company, 1886. Hard cover. Book Condition: Good. First edition. Good. No dust jacket as issued. 279 p. Includes index. VINTAGE BOOK, Red full cloth cover with gold letters and black decorations on spine and especially on the front cover, which is still bright. but there are noticed flaws such as a faded spine, but you can still read gold lettering, brown endpapers are clean, front and back. Book is just a remarkable book of the Actors and Acresses of Great Britain and USA starting "from the days of David Garrick to the present time (1886). Book is dedicated to The Dunlap Society of which they hoped would encourage people to keep alive the love they had for the art of acting in the acted drama". Contents page is on the left. there is an introduction from the Editors, and these actors, etc. : DAVID GARRICK ,Charles Macklin, James Quini, Katharine Clive, , Margaret Woffington, Stranger Barry and his Wife, Samuel Foote, Thomas Sheridan, Henry Mossop, Frances Abinton, George ann Bellamy, Tate wilkinson, Lewis Hallam and John Henderson. Dates of birth/death are included in each chapter.

MACREADY AND FORREST AND THEIR CONTEMPOARIES

Cassel & Company, 1886. Hard cover. Book Condition: Good. First edition. Good. No dust jacket as issued. 279 p. Includes index. VINTAGE BOOK, Red full cloth cover with gold letters and black decorations on spine and especially on the front cover, which is still bright. but there are noticed flaws such as a faded spine, but you can still read gold lettering, brown endpapers are clean, front and back,  Book is just a remarkable book of the Actors and Acresses of Great Britain and USA. Book is dedicated to The Dunlap Society of which they hoped would encourage people to keep alive the love they had for the art of acting in the acted drama". Contents page is on the left. there is an introduction from the Editors, and these actors, etc. :WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY, EDWIN FORREST, and 12 others....Dates of birth/death are included in each chapter.  Both books have wonderful illustrations and are in VG-G condition. Rare and hard to find. Modern reprints (1977) of these books run 50.00-60.00 each