Actors and actresses of Great Britain and the United States
Subtitle: from the days of David Garrick to the present time
By: edited by Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 1886
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Actors; Biography
Other titles: Actors and actresses ...
Description: "In the five volumes ... there will be biographical and critical sketches of about seventy-five of the leading actors and actresses who have adorned the stage of Great Britain and the United States from 1750 to 1886"--Vol. 1, p. ix
Notes: Includes indexes.

"Edition de luxe, on large paper, limited to one hundred (100) sets, numbered and signed by the editors"--Page after title page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This is copy 39, signed by the editors.

Extra-illustrated with over 500 portraits, 80 autographs and letters, and 40 playbills and other printed ephemera.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] Garrick and his contemporaries; title: [v. 2] The Kembles and their contemporaries; title: [v. 3] Kean and Booth; and their contemporaries; title: [v. 4] Macready and Forrest; and their contemporaries; title: [v. 5] The present time.