Hardcover. Red cloth binding with black title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. 1st edition. A fair to good copy. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 286 p. col. front., ports. 24 cm. Series: Eighteenth-century sources for the study of English literature ; Contents: Frances Abington (née Barton), 1737-1815.–Sarah Siddons (née Kemble), 1755-1831.–Mary Anne (“Perdita”) Robinson (née Darby), 1758-1800.–Dorothy Jordan (née Bland), 1761-1816. Subjects: Abington Mrs. (Frances Barton) 1737-1815. Siddons, Sarah 1755-1831. Robinson, Mary 1758-1800. Jordan, Dorothy 1761-1816.

Lewis Saul Benjamin (pen name, Lewis Melville; 1874–1932) was an English author, born into a Jewish family in London, England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor, though part of his time even then was devoted to literature.