Enter David Garrick Hardcover - 1951

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Ernest H. Shepard. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the author on the ffep. Stated first edition. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Interior clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chipped at head of spine and bottom corner of front panel; scratch on spine; some scuffing; not price clipped ($3.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. Index. ix, 278 pages. Biography of the English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer, David Garrick (1717-1779), a friend of Samuel Johnson's who had also been Johnson's pupil at the Edial Hall School. Appropriate for readers of all ages, this study of Garrick and his times, brings in the great figures of Samuel Johnson and Boswell, Peg Woffington, Garrick's wife Eva Maria, William Hogarth, Henry Fielding, and Frances ''Fanny'' Burney. Anna Bird Stewart (b.1880) based her book on a lifetime of interest in Garrick. She had visited every village and town in England associated with Garrick, from Lichfield to London, and presents much new material collected from both the great American collections and at places where Garrick lived.