Practical Illustrations Of Rhetorical Gesture And Action, Adapted To English Drama. From A Work On The Same Subject By M. Engel, Royal Academy Of Berlin. Embellished With Numerous Engravings, Expressive Of The Various Passions, And Representing The Modern Costume Of The London Theatre. Engel, M.: Siddons, Henry: Illustrated Books

Hardback, 8.5 x 5 inches. Full calf leather fine binding, gilt decorations, raised banding and red leather spine label. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Later fine binding. Spine sunned. Some minor rubbing marks to boards. Some occasional minor handling marks to pages, one or two minor light foxing spots. Plates all very clean and bright, all tissue guarded (possibly new tissue guards added later). Else an excellent clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 387pp + Index. Profusely illustrated with B&W engraved plates of figures in various poses.