Brewer J Ames Norris (2 results)

First edition. [2], iv, 37pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, and additional engraved title page, and a further engraved plates. Original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. Foxed and browned, one gathering (and three attendant plates) detached from text-block. The sole edition on a series historical and descriptive notices on the residences of influential British performers and dramatists, illustrated by fine engravings executed by draughtsman James Storer (1771-1853) and his son Henry Sargant Storer (1795-1837). The notices include, inter alia, descriptions of Garrick's London town house, the birth place in Stratford-upon-Avon of Shakespeare, and the Bard's monument at Westminster Abbey. Size: 8vo.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 37, [1] inserted engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, 12 engraved plates drawn and engraved by either by Henry Sargant Storer, or by James Sargant Storer, plus 1 wood-engraved tailpiece; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; spine and label darkened and both partially perished; all else very good, sound, and internally clean. Bookplate of Joseph Billiat. The engravings are elegant. Among the residences and monuments treated are those of Shakespeare, Garrick, Thomas Davies, John Edwin, Barton Booth, and Catherine Clive.…