[ Privately printed limited edition. ] The Garrick Club | Notices of One Hundred and Thirty-Five of its Former Members | By Rev. R. H. Barham | Author of 'The Ingoldsby Legends' | With Facsimile of the Original MS.

Author: 
Rev. R. H. Barham, Author of 'The Ingoldsby Legends'
Publication details: 
[ New York. ] 'Privately Printed | 1896'. [ Limited to 240 copies. ]
£100.00
SKU: 18892

viii + 58. Collotype frontispiece reproducing part of manuscript. Nicely printed on good paper. Internally tight, on lightly-aged paper, in discoloured and lightly-worn cream buckram binding, gilt. Tissue guard to frontispiece detached. The conclusion to the four-page preface, which is dated from New York, January 1896, explains that the 'formal publication in England' of the volume 'might possibly be deemed an offence against good taste, although its Author has been deceased for half a century, and hardly a single person referred to by Canon Barham can now be alive. | Permission has therefore been obtained from the owner of the MS. to reproduce it here, in an edition limited to 240 copies, which it is hoped will suffice to preserve, in public institutions and the libraries of literary men, a curious and valuable record of artistic life in London sixty years ago.' In parts highly-amusing: the entries on Thomas Duncombe (describing his fracas with C. M. Westmacott behind the scenes at Drury Lane) and John Forster ('A low scribbler, without an atom of talent and totally unused to the society of gentlemen.') are outstanding. Uncommon.