Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. xiv 372pp (18 plates), viii 385pp(18 plates). Red buckram, gilt lettering and portrait both in their rare original dust jackets. Frontispiece for each volume. Folding facsimile letter in volume 2. TEG. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper of volume one. Some discoloration to volume 1, pages 58-59, not quite reaching the text. Jackets are faded at the spines as well as edges of the front covers. Minor rubbing to bottom edges of cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jackets. Item #82870
Nice set, uncommon in jackets. A biography of the Victorian actor. Irving was a possible source for Stoker's character of Dracula. Stoker worked as Irving assistant and was the business manager for Irving's Lyceum Theatre for many years, having worked for him beginning in 1878.
Price: $1,250.00