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Hard cover, Crown octavo (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches), in green decorated cloth with pictorial design of vining Tudor roses and a central escutcheon blocked to the top board, with titles and decoration extending to the spine. All edges gilt. Green glazed end papers. 80 black and white illustrations consisting of line drawings, etchings and photogravures. Author's tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece, 254 pp. First Edition, produced at Norwood Press, Boston. J.S.Cushing and Sons-Berwick and Smith. In American Cranford style "extra cloth" binding popularized by Macmillan at this time. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Very clean and bright, with light intermittent foxing to prelims, affecting title page, and opposite some of the plates, as is usual with this era of book. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1893 to half title pg. in old ink.**This series of essays by the Gloucester, Massachusetts-born art and literary critic, William Winter ( 1836-1917) is based on various articles he wrote about the literary and cultural sites of London, Oxford, Ireland and Stratford -upon-Avon seen during two trips taken in 1877 and 1882. The second trip coincided with the then newly reopened Globe Theatre Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford upon Avon. AUTHOR William Winter ( 1836-1917) attended Harvard Law. He wrote for many periodicals of the day and was a supporter of the literary careers of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, among others. In addition to being a poet, he had friends in the world of the stage, writing biographies of a number of contemporary actors. BAL 23099.
Ref: ILLUS 9286
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