sarah siddons (30 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A fine engraved portrait - printed in 1819. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Mounted and ready to frame , mount size approx 12 x 10 inches, 34 x 28 cms . A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative original portrait of the 19th century actress MRS SARAH SIDDONS AS LADY RANDOLPH IN DOUGLAS.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. From Gainsborough (illustrator). A splendid original antique portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Very unusual and decorative .

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Very unusual and decorative .

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By W.Holl (illustrator). Mounted and ready to frame. Mount size approx. 12 x 10 ins, 30 x 25 cms. ca. 1850. Most unusual print. Steel Engraving.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Mackenzie (illustrator). High quality, antique stipple engraved portraits of famous women. The central engraved portion is similar in size to a 'miniature'. Mounted and ready to frame. 1804. An unusual item. English tragic actress. First appeared at Drury Lane in 1775.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original antique engraved portrait of this famous personage. Mounted and ready to frame. Mount size approximately 12 x 10 inches, 26 x 20 cms. Excellent condition. A fine opportunity to purchase a splendid portrait .

Zustand: New.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. c. 1880. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an very decorative and attractive antique portrait.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Annan & Swan (illustrator). A fine copperplate engraving, from 'Annals of The English Stage', 1888. Engraved size approx 5.5 x 4 ins, 14 x 10 cms. High quality, delicate engraving - scarce and most decorative and attractive. Mounted and ready to frame.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Annan & Swan (illustrator). A fine copperplate engraving, from 'Annals of The English Stage', 1888. Engraved size approx 5.5 x 4 ins, 14 x 10 cms. High quality, delicate engraving - scarce and most decorative and attractive. Mounted and ready to frame.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

116, (1) pp. + engraved portrait. Printed wrappers. No, 314, on "papier de Madagascar" of 250 copies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Stipple,

Zustand: Fine. Publisher's original colour canvas effect stapled card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 48 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings and in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. We currently hold in stock 5 other titles in this series. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Annan & Swan - Copperplate (illustrator). A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1312 pages. 9.25x6.50x4.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Two volumes. Octavos. A handsome set bound by Root and Son (with both half-titles present) in late 19th century three-quarter dark blue morocco and marbled paper sides, elaborate gilt spines in compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Siddons in Vol. 1. Small faded contemporary ownership name at the top of the title page. Old dampstain to the bottom third of the text block of both volumes with the marbled front free endpapers lightly adhered to the bottom edge of the pastedowns, thus good only with some modest rubbing to the bottom edges of the covers. A scarce first edition of Sarah Siddon's *Memoirs*, attractively bound with the elaborate gilt spines in bright, fine condition. *OCLC* locates only 5 copies.

First American edition, published first in London in two volumes the same year. Frontispiece portrait engraved by S. H. Gimber after portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 8 pages publisher's advertisements at the back. 1 vols. 8vo. NCBEL 3:263; Lowe, Arnott and Robinson 3541 for first edition Original rose cloth, printed paper label. Cloth faded, some fraying of joints and extremities, stain in center of upper cover causing buckling of cloth, careful repair to head of spine, some light spotting, generally at front and back and light, upper portion of title torn away affecting the upper portion of the letter ?L? else very good Frontispiece portrait engraved by S. H. Gimber after portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 8 pages publisher's advertisements at the back. 1 vols. 8vo First American edition, published first in London in two volumes the same year.

The text is on one side of a 13 x 16 cm piece of laid watermarked paper. The signature 'J. Kemble' is at bottom left, in slightly-darker ink than the fifteen lines of text. Lightly aged and with short closed tears at edges of two folds. Slight traces of brown-paper mount at top corners on reverse, which carries a capable ink drawing of 'the Caducean Trident' mentioned in the text: a dragon with two sets of wings, body stiff as a rod, encircled by two snakes. The text, which has a few deletions and interpolations indicating original composition, may refer to a prop required for a dramatic production by Kemble. It reads: 'Albion, having accepted from his cousin Mercury, God of Commerce, his original Caduceus, and, from his father, Neptune, his original Trident, requested of Vulcan to new mould them, making the two into one badge of sovereign authority, symbolical of commercial supremacy and marine dominion. In compliance with this request, Vulcan produced the Caducean Trident. The Dragon is the symbol of a military marine; vigilant, swift, terrible and potent; and the Serpents are the types of the sagacity, address and prudence of Commerce, which is the source and foundation of naval power; and therefore this symbolical sceptre of Albion is in a tridental form, well at [sic] its lower as well as its upper extremity.'.

Two pages (one leaf),18.5 x 14cms, left edge showing signs of being tipped on to something, text mainly clear and apparently complete, as follows: " Mr Charles Kemble begs to return the best Thanks of the Committee of Management to Mr Thelwall for the kind offer of the occasional Address, which they would gladly have had receited if they were not convinced by experience, of the total want of attraction in similar productions - They think, however, it might be of great service to the cause which it advocates, were it to be inserted previously to the Benefit in the daily Papers as powerful stimulants are necessary to induce the public to attend the Theatre on this occasion - the receipts of Drury Lane and the Lyceum upon the nights 'devoted' to the irish peasantry [sic], sufficiently testify this. The Committee fully appreciate the motives of Mr Thelwall, and for this, as well as for the disinterested offer of his future services are much indebted to him." Note: a. [Thelwall] (1764 1834) was a radical British orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist who pub;lished in 17965 "on the Political Prostitution of the Public Theatres".

First edition, second issue, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on an initial blank, "To Sally Siddons, from her affectionate Grandmother". Siddons dominated the London theatre scene from 1782 to 1812: she performed the role of Hamlet nine times over thirty years and was venerated across the country in her most iconic role, Lady Macbeth. Sarah Siddons (née Kemble, 1755-1831) established herself "as the most acclaimed tragic actress of her own age, and she has subsequently been widely regarded as the greatest female performer in English theatrical history. In her own lifetime she achieved the status of a popular icon, playing a key role in the social legitimation of the acting profession, moving from the reputedly disreputable world of provincial touring theatre to the salons of the aristocracy, and amassing substantial personal wealth. Siddons's Lady Macbeth continues to be regarded as the one against which all later interpretations have been judged" (ODNB). Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Siddons, painted in 1785, hangs in the National Gallery. Siddons gave public readings of Paradise Lost after she retired from the stage, and writes that this abridgement "was made several years ago for the purpose of being read to my children. it was calculated to afford occupation and amusement for four evenings". The book was issued earlier the same year under the title An Abridgement of Paradise Lost. The recipient of this copy was most likely Sarah Elizabeth Siddons (later Grant, 1803-1875), the daughter of Siddons's eldest son, Henry. Several pages have pencil marks in the margins highlighting portions of text, and a bookmarker is inserted between pages 168 and 169 at the beginning of the eleventh book; it is tempting to speculate that these were the passages that Siddons read to her granddaughter. Joseph Wittreich, Feminist Milton, 2020. Octavo (211 x 133 mm). Contemporary brown calf, rebacked with part of the original spine laid down, covers bordered with a gilt double-fillet frame, elaborate gilt rolls to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges, green silk bookmarker. Bookplate to front pastedown of George Clifford Thomas (1839-1809), American banker and philanthropist, designed by Joseph Winifred Spenceley and dated 1902. Extremities lightly worn, some scuffs and small repairs to covers, sporadic light marks to contents, otherwise clean, about very good.