EGAN, PIERCE. The Life of an Actor. 27 hand-colored aquatint engravings including frontispiece by Theodore Lane (occasional smudging, chiefly marginal). 8vo, later full blue morocco extra, triple gilt-fillets, minor rubbing to boards; spine elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, front joint rubbed, front hinge starting; inner dentelles; all edges gilt, by Riviere & Son; Robert Leaming Montgomery and Charles Cooper Townsend armorial bookplates. first edition, handsomely bound. Abbey Life, 414; Tooley 195. London: for C.S. Arnold, 1825