{"product_id":"125793","title":"Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi.","description":"First edition, first issue in the original cloth bindings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first issue \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of Joseph Grimaldi\u003c\/em\u003e by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at page 238 in volume two in its first state, without the grotesque border, which was added later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrimaldi was one of the most renowned English actors of the Regency period. In the early 1800s he greatly expanded the role of the Clown in the Harlequinade and made it his own, to such an extant that a clown became known as a 'Joey', and his white-face make-up became standard for all types of clown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, first issue; 2 volumes, 8vo; 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank, foxing and toning; publisher's floral-patterned embossed pink cloth, spines gilt, endpapers renewed, cloth darkened and marked, spines toned (as usual), a very good copy; xix, [3], 288; ix, [1], 263 [1], 36 (ads) pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEckel p.141.","brand":"DICKENS, Charles.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57741369704823,"sku":"125793","price":975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/125793_01.jpg?v=1794506109","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/125793","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}