The Leipzig edition is listed in catalogs as the copyright edition.

In the same year another edition was published: London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.
Online text: INTERNET ARCHIVE

One of the most important books on theater criticism of the nineteenth century, the text contains the essays published by Lewes - theater reviewer, co-director of the Leader and collaborator of Westminster Review, New Quarterly, Pall Mall Gazette - which discuss the most important English and European actors: Edmund Kean, Macready, Rachel, Lemaître, Fetcher, Got, Ristori, Salvini, etc., and include exhaustive descriptions of acting in contemporary French, German, and Spanish theater. Lewes's essays contain fundamental contributions to the theoretical debate on acting, in particular in the essays Shakespeare as Actor and Critic, On Natural Acting, Foreign Actors on our Stage, First Impressions on Salvini.

LATER EDITIONS:
- New York, Brentano's, 1878?.
- New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1878 and 1880.

RECENT EDITIONS:
- New York, Brentano's, [1911].
- New York, Grove Press, 1957.
- New York, Greenwood Press, 1968.

TRANSLATIONS:
German: Über Schauspieler und Schauspielkunst, Leipzig, Duncker, 1878 (see). Translation by Emil Lehmann.

Italian: Gli attori e l'arte della recitazione: scritti sulla scena dell'Ottocento da Kean a Salvini, Milano, Costa & Nolan, 1999 (see). Translation by Edoardo Giovanni Carlotti.