Clowns and Pantomimes

London: Constable, 1925. Hardcover, first edition, without dust jacket. Former library copy with stamps/stickers and penned annotations to front pastedowns, FEP and prelims. Includes full colour frontispiece, six full-page illustrations, 54 monochrome plates, as well as numerous illustrations embedded in the thext. Plate on p. 108 has come away from the binding, but is still present. Red cloth boards are… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1925. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Quarto sized in orange cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Color frontispiece of Joseph Grimaldi in full make up and costume; 0ver 50 monochrome plates. The history of clowns, harlequins, pantomimes and similar entertainers from ancient times to the early 20th century. Includes chapters on such famous… Read more about this item

New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. black line on bottom edge of pages. covers show a very little bit of handling. This is a reprint of the 1925 edition. 344 pages; 7 x 10 1/4