His Grandfather and Father-His Birth and first appearance at Drury Lane Theatre, and at Sadler's Wells-His Father's severity-Miss Farren-The Earl of Derby and the Wig-The Fortune-box and Charity's reward-His Father's pretended death, and the behaviour of himself and his brother thereupon. The paternal grandfather of Joseph Grimaldi was well known, both to the French and Italian public, as an eminent dancer, possessing a most extraordinary degree of strength and agility, -qualities which, being brought into full play by the ...
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His Grandfather and Father-His Birth and first appearance at Drury Lane Theatre, and at Sadler's Wells-His Father's severity-Miss Farren-The Earl of Derby and the Wig-The Fortune-box and Charity's reward-His Father's pretended death, and the behaviour of himself and his brother thereupon. The paternal grandfather of Joseph Grimaldi was well known, both to the French and Italian public, as an eminent dancer, possessing a most extraordinary degree of strength and agility, -qualities which, being brought into full play by the constant exercise of his frame in his professional duties, acquired for him the distinguishing appellation of "Iron Legs." Dibdin, in his History of the Stage, relates several anecdotes of his prowess in these respects, many of which are current elsewhere, though the authority on which they rest would appear from his grandson's testimony to be somewhat doubtful; the best known of these, however, is perfectly true. Jumping extremely high one night in some performance on the stage, possibly in a fit of enthusiasm occasioned by the august presence of the Turkish Ambassador, who, with his suite, occupied the stage-box, he actually broke one of the chandeliers which in those times hung above the stage doors; and one of the glass drops was struck with some violence against the eye or countenance of the Turkish Ambassador aforesaid. The dignity of this great personage being much affronted, a formal complaint was made to the Court of France, who gravely commanded "Iron Legs" to apologize, which "Iron Legs" did in due form, to the great amusement of himself, and the court, and the public; and, in short, of everybody else but the exalted gentleman whose person had been grievously outraged
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George Cruikshank. Fine in very good(-) jacket. Illustrated. 311 pages. 8vo., blue cloth backed blue boards, chipped and edge-worn wrapper. New York: Stein and Day, (1968). A very good copy in a very good(-) wrapper.
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Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Very Good in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Originally published in 1838 and rewritten by Charles Dickens; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
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8vo. 311 pp. Cloth in dust jacket, some small tears on spine of dust jacket, exlibris. Illustrations by George Cruitshank, and edited by Richard Findlater.
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Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. 311 pages. First English Edition. Edited by Richard Findlater. Grimaldi was England's king of clowns and his memoirs were adapted by Dickens into a narrative biography which is here re-edited and updated by Findlater, based on his own research. Fine in about fine price-clipped dustjacket with just a touch of wear to edge of spine crown.
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George Cruikshank. VG / red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Slight wear to spine ends, b/w frontis of Joseph Grimaldi is loose from spine. Content clean, illustrated.
