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Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King.
by Tomalin, Claire
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0670841595
- ISBN 13
- 9780670841592
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About This Item
HARDBACK "BIOGRAPHY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 4th.* Date: 1994.* Pub: Viking.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and none to face. No bumps or rubs, no marks or other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a painting of Mrs. Jordan as "Rosalind" by William Beechey. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £18.00. No visible faults. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A number of b/w and colour plates including several facsimiles.* Pages: 322 pp. text. xc pp. appendices, notes, bibliography, index, family trees blank pages at rear.* Description: Claire Tomalin's biography of the great Georgian comic actress Mrs Dora Jordan is both readable and comprehensive. It tells of her rise to fame on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and how, after a terrible time with a number of aristocrats in London society, she became the longstanding mistress of the Duke of Clarence, the future William IV.* A FINE copy with NO VISIBLE FAULTS in a FINE dust jacket now in a clear un-attached protective sleeve.*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9315
- Title
- Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King.
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 4th. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0670841595
- ISBN 13
- 9780670841592
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 417
- Date Published
- 1994-10-16
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