(DICKENS, Charles) JOHNSON, Edgar & Eleanor, eds. The Dickens Theatrical Reader; edited with a prologue and notes by Edgar and Eleanor Johnson. FIRST EDITION. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co. 1964
Half title, illus. Orig. blue cloth. A good-plus copy in sl. worn price-clipped d.w.
¶' ... all Dickens's writing about the theatre, ranging from some of the great scenes of the novels by way of serious essays (on, e.g. King Lear) and spoof reviews and playbills to the most entertaining opinion and gossip in his letters, with the original Cruikshank and Phiz illustrations.'