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7.5 x 11.5 cm black and white publicity photograph by ' "Philco" London W.C.1.' Expansive genuine signature 'Gladys Cooper' across bottom part of image, in addition to facsimile signature in white at bottom right. In good condition, on postcard with border trimmed. Dark sepia-toned image. A head-and-shoulders portrait, with Cooper staring to her right, with short frizzy hair, in fashionable gown. Scan on application.…

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale sage green cloth covers, faded gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 406 printed pages of text with many detailed monochrome illustrations throughout. Presentation Copy stamp to the title page, rubbing of the cloth down the rear hinge exposing the webbing to the top 45 mm, rubbing to the corners, very light foxing to the end papers, an essential classic extremely hard to find. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOTANY (Phytology).…

Edward Knobloch's play 'My Lady's Dress' ('in which', as one newspaper wrote at the time, 'the heroine's dream takes her to the foreign [and London] scenes surrounding the manufacture of a costly gown') premiered at the Royalty Theatre in London in 1914 and was revived several times through the 1920s. Although neither of these photographs is among the five Foulsham & Banfield portraits of Cooper in the National Portrait Gallery collection, the second one (Cooper and Eadie embracing) is present among the seven unattributed scenes from the 1914 production in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection ('Given to the Gabrielle Enthoven Collection by L.E. Berman'). Both of the present items are black and white gelatin silver prints. Dimensions are approximate. ONE: Cooper seated on a chair in front of a window and beside a table, hands clasped in her lap, looking mournfully at the viewer, in dotted smock worn over plaid dress, with lace collar and crocheted Welsh-style shawl. HEIGHT: 30.5 cm. WIDTH: 21 cm. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight wear and chipping at edges, and one very small closed tear at head, beside '5/-' which appears to be part of the print. Written in pencil on reverse: 'Miss Cooper as Annette / Act I. Sc 3.' Also label with ink note: 'My Lady's Dress / Royalty / Feb 27 1914' and the stamp of Foulsham & Banfield, 49 New Bond Street. TWO: The Victoria and Albert description reads as follows: 'Photographic print of Act III, Scene 3, of a production of My Lady's Dress at the Royalty Theatre, 23rd April 1914. The photograph features a full length image of Miss Cooper as Anne and Mr Eadie as John they are standing together, embracing, and are gazing towards one another.' He wears a dressing gown and she is in a rather splendid Pre-Raphaelite-style dress. Height: 26.5 cm. Width: 20.5 cm. Adhering to the reverse are the remains of a grey paper mount, and no details are given. In good condition, lightly aged. See Image.…

4pp., folio. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper slightly worn at head. The front page is headed 'H.R.H. Princess Christian and the Royal Members, are Patrons of a Private Farewell Matinee arrranged by Lady Romney on behalf of the Green Park Club for Mr. and Mrs. Luther Munday'. The names of twenty performers are listed beneath this, headed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with various other individuals named. The central two pages form a single arrangement of dozens of facsimile signatures, beneath the following message from the Countess of Romney, as President of the Green Room Club: 'Names are the beads of Memory's Rosay. I have had these autographs fac-similied from Mr. Munday's collection of letters because they connect the past with the present. These, Stars in the firmament of Art, have all, and many more, without money or price, taken some part in the Thousand Hours of Play and Song - social gatherings initiated and managed by Mr. & Mrs. Munday. To this Farewell Tribute from the Green Park Club, headd by its Royal members, I have added overleaf one other record, viz: that of the original Lyric Club. These (with 76 organized for charities) comprise 400 Entertainments given during the past 20 years.' The final page is headed 'Copy of a Record of the Old Lyric Club, 1887. | To the Secretary: Mr. Luther Munday'. Among those endorsing the account are Edward Spencer Churchill, Henry Irvving, Arthur Sullivan, George Grossmith and Charles Wyndham.…