Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. / Edited by "Boz." [pseudonym] With illustrations by George Cruikshank ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.

Contributor:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, editor.

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator.

Richard Bentley (Firm), publisher.

Samuel Bentley and Co., printer.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors.

England.

Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.

Grimaldi, Joseph.

Actors--England.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1838.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Trasoff, Anna (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

London, Printed by Samuel Bentley.

Place of Publication:

London : R. Bentley, 1838.

Notes:

Grimaldi's original ms. was first altered and revised by Mr. Thomas Egerton Wilks, who sold it to the present publisher. "The present editor ... accepted a proposal from the publisher to edit the book, and has edited it to the best of his ability, altering its form throughout, and making such other alterations as he conceived would improve the narration of the facts, without any departure from the facts themselves."--Introductory chapter.

Publisher's advertisements: v. 2, p. [1]-36 at end.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Volume 1: bound in cloth, front and back cover blind stamped. Gilt spine.

Bound in original pink embossed cloth.

First issue of the first edition. Final plate "The last song" (v. 2, facing p. 238) contains no border. Eckel identifies this as the distinguishing feature between first and second issues.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Wm. F.W. Reeve, 1974.

Cited in:

Eckel, John C. Dickens, p. 140

Shepherd, Richard H. Dickens, 18

OCLC:

2420258