The Eminent Tragedian William Charles Macready by Downer, Alan S - 1966

Harvard University Press, 1966. Hardback in very good plus condition with good plus dust jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 392p., illus.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 392 p., illus.

Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press, 1966. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition hardback, 1966, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj lightly rubbed; blue cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London/ U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. Near Fine/Very Good. 1966. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Making use of family papers and other materials not previously available, the author combines in this biography an account of Macready's life, and the life of the theatre of the first half of the nineteenth century, with a detailed study of the great English actor's theories of acting and staging. Throughout the book Mr. Downer offers a multitude of scenes of men and women in action, Macready;s friends, associates, and enemies, most of them famous and many in unfamiliar roles. 392 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .