All the King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration

Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small tears and small chips, jacket flap price-clipped. Boards slightly bowed, endpapers lightly foxed. 1958 Hard Cover. ix, 205 pp. About the careers of stage actresses during the Restoration period in England, and how new comers with no money had to depend on the patronage of the nobility, like the actress Nell Gwyn who became Charles II's mistress.