First edition. xiv, 284pp, plus a central section of plate illustrations. In deep green cloth-covered boads with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Small mark on front panel, cloth slightly pushed at spine base. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket, a litlte bumped at edges.
Historical biography of the stage actress and celebrity figure praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances and the long-time, and perhaps favourite, mistress of Charles II.
