The life of an actor

The poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane. London : Pickering and Chatto, 1892. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed Morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed at edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xvi; 257, colour plates (a couple neatly detached), a very good copy. The Life of an Actor by Pierce Egan is a vivid, semi-autobiographical novel detailing the turbulent career of “Peregrine Proteus” in the early 19th-century British theater world. This is a Reissue of the 1825 edition.