[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: DUNLAP'S LIFE OF COOKE, THE ACTOR.

[Norman Kane]

DUNLAP, WM.   MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, ESQ., LATE OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. IN TWO VOLUMES.  FROM JOURNALS AND OTHER AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS ... AND THE PERSONAL       KNOWLEDGE OF THE WRITER.  N. Y.: D. Longworth, 1813.  First edition.  BAL 5010.
12mos, half leather with raised bands, light rubbing, marbled sides and end papers, top edges gilt. (Cooke's entry in the DNB occupies two and a half pages, and reads like a picaresque romance, admixed with inebriation. He was highly admired as an actor. He came to the U.S. in 1810 and died here in 1811. "His reception in New York was triumphant.")  $190.00

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