238 pp. + additional plates. Illustrated with 22 plates from lithographs, gravures, facsimiles, engravings, etc., including frontispiece portrait; approximately 73 extra illustrations from various eighteenth and nineteenth century sources of gravures, copper and steel engravings, lithographs, etc., laid in to size, many identified in pencil, many with tissue-guards. 8½x5½, ¾ red morocco, marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. First Edition.

A fine example of an "extra illustrated" book. A tragic story recounted in the correspondence between Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), an English portrait painter, and Mrs. Sally and Maria Siddons, mother and daughter, known for their theatrical acting, and who, later, the artist deserted.