(THEATER) Rip Van Winkle as Played by Joseph Jefferson

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ON JAPAN AND WITH JEFFERSON ALS (THEATER.) Rip Van Winkle as Played by Joseph Jefferson. Hand-tinted frontispiece portrait photogravure of Jefferson; numerous illustrations and photogravures with lettered tissue guards on Japan paper, line illustrations throughout text. 8vo, pictorial vellum, natural discoloration and creasing, rubbing; splits between signatures, mostly at front; bookplate of William H. Sage. New York, 1895

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number 150 of 150 copies with the plates on japan. with an autograph letter signed by jefferson to William Sage in the year of publication, explaining in detail his busy performance schedule as the reason for declining Sage's invitation to visit. 3 pages, folded folio sheet, verso of blank rear sheet mounted to rear pastedown. Cincinnati, Ohio, 22 December 1895.