THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN.
By DR. DORAN, F.S.A.
Edited and Revised by R. W. Lowe from Author's Annotated Copy.
With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings.
Note.—The following are some of the chief features of this new edited and revised edition of Dr. Doran's well-known work.
It is illustrated for the first time with fifty newly engraved copperplate portraits of the leading and best known actors and actresses, all of which are printed as India proofs.
There are also fifty-six illustrations, newly engraved on wood, printed on fine Japanese paper, and mounted at the head of each chapter, as well as some twenty or more character illustrations, also newly engraved on wood, and printed with the text at end of the chapters.
There are numerous new and original footnotes given, as well as a copious and exhaustive Index to each volume.
Besides the demy 8vo edition, a limited number will be printed on royal 8vo, fine deckle-edged paper, with a duplicate set of the fifty portraits, one on Japanese paper and the other on plate paper, as India proofs.