8vo. 6, [2], 424, 41pp, [1]. With a half-title. In this issue, the text on pp.295-296, beginning on p.295, line 11, and ending at the foot of p.296 is present; the documents numbered xviii-xxii are removed from the appendix by the partial resetting of sig.2e4 and by cancelling leaves 2f1-3; signature *Mm4 appears to be a whole-sheet cancel. Recent gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, short tear to lower margin of leaf b2. Original publisher's upper wrapper bound in; boldly signed to recto Chas. Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

The first edition of actor and theatre manager John Jackson (1729/30-1806) highly personal, polemical, survey, of the history of theatrical performance in Scotland.

In his Annals of the Edinburgh Stage (1888), Dibdin terms Jackson's history a 'most pompous and inaccurate work'.

The third and fourth volumes of fellow actor Charles Lee Lewes's (1740-1803) Memoirs, posthumously published in 1805, were primarily devoted to rebuking the veracity of Jackson's claims.

Provenance: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), Scottish antiquary and artist.