The Wandering Patentee ; or, a History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1770 to the Present Time, interspersed with anecdotes respecting most of the performers in the Three Kingdoms from 1765 to 1795 [4 volumes + index].
by Tate Wilkinson:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1973. Facsimile edition, compete in four volumes (bound in this edition in two hardback volumes) plus a hardback index volume. The main volumes are 12mo (18cm by 11cm), and paginate as follows: 312pp; 268pp; 268pp; 269pp. The index volume (compiled by C Beecher Hogan) is 8vo (22cm by 14cm) and has 61 pages. The set is uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spines. Ths set is generally in very good condition, but the preliminary pages of the index volume are a little foxed.
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- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52103
- Title
- The Wandering Patentee ; or, a History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1770 to the Present Time, interspersed with anecdotes respecting most of the performers in the Three Kingdoms from 1765 to 1795 [4 volumes + index].
- Author
- Tate Wilkinson:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1973.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled boards
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
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