thespian dictionary dramatic biography present (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. First Edition. London: James Dundee, 1805. First edition [1805]. Brief biographies of actors and actresses, managers, playwrights, etc. connected with the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British theatre. Includes twenty engraved portraits, an engraved title, and a smaller engraved portrait. Full calf, black spine label, marbled edges and endpapers, unpaginated (about 1.25" thick). A rough copy with much cover wear, broken hinges, split text block, age-toning and soil to several of the portraits, one portrait detached and heavily chipped, another with a chip at the center, text pages quite clean with some occasional wear to the margins, title page darkened and spotted, first two text pages corner clipped, names on both engraved and standard title pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

12mo in sixes, engraved title and pp. iv, [396]; pagination including three leaves of advertisements at end; with ten sepia plates (of, perhaps, 22 required); contemporary calf, gilt spine (spine and upper joint slightly defective; corners bumped). Second edition: first published in 1802. This anonymous dictionary of playwrights, actors and other performers does not concern itself with long-dead people (such as Shakespeare or Dryden) but concentrates only on the 18th century and current figures. However, it does have some rather peculiar priorities: there are a dozen double-column pages on Thomas Sheridan (1719-88), but barely more than one page on his famous son, and just one column on Sarah Siddons, despite including a portrait of this famous actress. The title page calls for 'twenty-two elegant engravings', but this copy only has ten apart from the engraved title page: the entry in A&R seems to imply that there should be twenty only, so this copy must lack some, but perhaps not as many as it would at first appear. Arnott & Robinson 43.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good with no dust jacket. 2nd. b/w; iv, 390 pages : portraits pages; . ." Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses, of teh United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of The English State " Illustrated with 23 engravings. #/4 brown calf leather over marbled boards. 13 part survey of English drama from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Front cover hinge repaired.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). A scarce copy of this brilliant little compendium of the lives of English actors, playwrights, directors and managers throughout history up until the early 19th century. Second Edition. 'Containing sketches of the lives, lists of the productions, various merits etc of all the principal dramatists, composers, commentators, managers, actors and actresses, of the United Kingdom: interspersed with numerous original anecdotes, forming a complete modern history of the English stage. Containing twenty engraved portrait plates. With an additional vignette title and portrait vignette at the end of the preface. Bookplate of Raymond Raikes to front blank. Raymond Montgomery Raikes (1910-1998) was a radio drama producer for the BBC. He himself, with John Barton, composed an enormous thirteen part survey of English drama from its earliest beginnings to the present day entitled 'The First Stage'. Rebound in cloth. Externally very good, minimal shelfwear, just slight fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Unobtrusive marginal age-toning and scattered spotting. A couple of leaves have sustained just slight worming. Good. book.