Holland Memorial: Sketch of the Life of George Holland, Extensively Extra-Illustrated.

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  [Theater] Holland, George. Holland Memorial: Sketch of the Life of George Holland, Extensively Extra-Illustrated. New York, 1871. Contemporary half-leather, front board weakly holding. Royal 8vo (10 3/8 x 6 ??), from an edition of 250 copies. Frontis. 124pp. Extra-illustrated with over 40 portrait engravings, most neatly bound in with window mounts, most dating to the early nineteenth century (a few late 18th), of famous actors and tragedians, plus an 1815 playbill featuring Holland in Richard III; Rev. George H. Houghton ALS (1895); clippings related to Holland; and the publisher?s prospectus. Closed tears to several pages (74?81) repaired with tape, otherwise good. Subjects of portraiture include Garrick, Foote, Dibdin, Russell (as Jerry Sneak), Fanny Kemble, Baddeley, Miss F. Kelly, Junius Brutus Booth, George Barrett, William Wood, E.L. Davenport, Miss Glyn, Lester Wallack, Pearman, T.P. Cooke, Rev. C.R. Maturin, George III, Charles Daly, Joseph Jefferson (photo print, 1894), John Sefton, Dickens, Edwin Booth, and others.
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