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Stoker (Bram). Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1906, coloured portrait
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Stoker (Bram). Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1906, coloured portrait frontispiece, plates, scattered light spotting, bookplate of William Morris, original red cloth gilt, spines a little faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to vol. I: ‘Willie Morris from his old friend Bram Stoker with affectionate rememberance, 19.7.09’. Bram Stoker was Henry Irving’s manager from 1878 to 1905, and Irving’s son, Henry Brodribb Irving, was at Oxford between 1888 and 1891 and appeared in several Oxford University Dramatic Society productions with William John Morris, and it may be during this period that Stoker became acquainted with Morris. (2)
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Stoker (Bram). Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1906, coloured portrait frontispiece, plates, scattered light spotting, bookplate of William Morris, original red cloth gilt, spines a little faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to vol. I: ‘Willie Morris from his old friend Bram Stoker with affectionate rememberance, 19.7.09’. Bram Stoker was Henry Irving’s manager from 1878 to 1905, and Irving’s son, Henry Brodribb Irving, was at Oxford between 1888 and 1891 and appeared in several Oxford University Dramatic Society productions with William John Morris, and it may be during this period that Stoker became acquainted with Morris. (2)
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