MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI
MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI
MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI

MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI

(London: Richard Bentley, 1838).

FIRST EDITION. A unique copy with two very fine watercolurs added to the end of Volume II and with the original cloth covers and spine panels bound in. Item #30435

2 volumes. First edition, first issue, first state without the "grotesque" border added at Vol. II p. 238. 13 illustrations by George Cruikshank. In addition and extra are two very finely executed unsigned watercolours at the end of Volume II. 8vo, very handsomely bound and signed Bartlett in full red calf, the spines beautifully decorated with ornate gilt tooled panels within compartments between raised bands, the covers ruled at the borders with double gilt-fillet lines and corner tools. Marbled endpapers and gilt tooled turn-ins. Original cloth covers bound in at the end of each volume. xix, 288; ix, 263, 2 watercolours on two leaves, 36 ads. pp. A fine and very handsome copy with some very minor evidence of age.

Price: $2,450.00