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AMBROSS, Miss E. The Life and Memoirs of the late Miss Ann Catley, the Celebrated Actress, with biographical sketches of Sir Francis Blake Delaval and the Hon. Isabella Pawlet. London: J. Bird, [1789].
8° (201 x 120mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, extra-illustrated with 3 engraved plates, two after J. Roberts. 19th-century half calf (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Julian Marshall (bookplate; two notes in [?]his hand) -- Frederick Forrest Peabody (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The background to the plate entitled 'The Whimsical Duet' is explained by a tipped-in contemporary press cutting from the Oxford Magazine, besides being the subject of a note by Marshall. ESTC states that the frontispiece portrait is dated 11 November, 1789; the frontispiece in this copy is an undated proof. SCARCE.
8° (201 x 120mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, extra-illustrated with 3 engraved plates, two after J. Roberts. 19th-century half calf (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Julian Marshall (bookplate; two notes in [?]his hand) -- Frederick Forrest Peabody (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. The background to the plate entitled 'The Whimsical Duet' is explained by a tipped-in contemporary press cutting from the Oxford Magazine, besides being the subject of a note by Marshall. ESTC states that the frontispiece portrait is dated 11 November, 1789; the frontispiece in this copy is an undated proof. SCARCE.
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