Reade, Charles. Peg Woffington, Christie Johnstone, and other stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. [9609]
Plain leather spine & corners, marbled paper boards, yellow end papers, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 212 pp. in double columns, publisher's adverts. One word in blue ink then crossed over on the contents page. Good. Hardcover.
Charles Reade (1814-1884), British dramatist and novelist; graduate, fellow, dean of arts, and vice president of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Peg Woffington is the prose version of his two-act comedy, Masks and Faces. Christie Johnstone is a story of Scottish fishermen.
This book also contains Clouds and Sunshine, Art: A Dramatic Tale, Propria Qua Maribus, The Box Tunnel, and Jack of All Trades.
