Lot 233: JEFFERSON, Joseph (1829-1905, American actor and

JEFFERSON, Joseph (1829-1905, American actor and comedian). The Autobiography. New York: The Century Co., 1890. Large 8vo. Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece and plates. Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt edges (upper cover detaching, extremities rubbed, some scuffing and slight white staining to lower cover). PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To Dr. J. L. Williams, with the cordial regards of J. Jefferson", with a further inscription beneath in a different hand, indistinctly signed and dated 1912.