The Drama:

Addresses

by Henry Irving 

Limited numbered edition, signed by the author.  New York:  Tait, Sons & Company, 1893 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Cream superfine covers have gilt ruling, title and illustration. 
• Boards show some smudges, bumps, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text and is a little faded, with crushed ends.
• Binding is strong.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some scattered foxing.  
• Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard; tissue guard is toned and foxed, with foxing to frontis and title pages.  See photos.
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear, deckle edges are toned, some scattered foxing marks. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, largely unopened edges at head.  See photos. 
• PS2025.0108

201 pages. 6 x 9 inches

A handsome volume containing the texts of four addresses given between 1881 and 1891 by Henry Irving (1838-1905), English stage actor and theater manager.  Irving, a prominent actor of the Victorian era, was the first actor to be knighted in England.  These addresses, on the subjects of "The Stage As It Is," "The Art of Acting," and "Four Great Actors," were given at the Philosophical Institution in Edinburgh and at Harvard and Oxford Universities.

Heavy white paper, with generous margins.  Much of the text block retains its uncut head edges.  

The frontispiece is by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), a portrait of Irving entitled "Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain."  A contemporary of Irving, Whistler lived and painted in London at the height of Irving's acting career.

Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is #242.  Signed by the author on the verso of the title page.

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