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Almanach des Spectacles
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Almanach des Spectacles

by [Charles Malo or Loeve-Weimars]

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Very rare complete set of all 8 volumes of this review of French theatre in the years 1818-1824.

All eight years of publication complete with 8 handcolored engraved title pages and over 90 finely handcolored engraved portraits of actors, actresses, opera singers, ballet dancers and comedians in costumes of their famous roles.

"Very interesting almanac, attributed to Charles Malo or [Francois-Adolphe] Loeve-Weimars, giving a summary of Parisian and provincial theaters, reviews on the plays and their performers, notes on debuts, repertoires, etc." (Grand-Carteret, Les almanachs français.)

Includes portraits of sopranos Mme. Gavaudan and Angelica Catalini, tenors Jean-Blaise Martin and Simon Cheard, ballet dancers Emilie Bigottini, Genevieve Gosselin, Antoine Paul and Mlle. Clotilde, child actress Leontine Fay, actors Francois-Joseph Talma and Charles-Gabriel Potier, and many more.

Odd volumes turn up occasionally but it is very rare to find the complete set of this intriguing anecdotal overview of… Read More
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Bell's British Theatre
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Bell's British Theatre: First edition with illustrations by Samuel de Wilde

by John Bell

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Complete set of 18 volumes of the first edition of John Bell's British Theatre with the de Wilde portraits."In 1793, the year of his first bancrupty, the beleaguered Bell bound up and sold the first 90 numbers of the new de Wilde-illustrated edition without general volume title pages." (Kalman A. Burnim and Philip H. Highfill Jr.). This set conforms to that description: volumes 1 to 18, each with five plays complete with all 90 title pages and theatrical portraits by Samuel de Wilde, engraved by John Chapman, lacking volume titles. Portraits include actors, actresses and opera singers of the Georgian stage including Sarah Siddons, John Philip Kemble, Robert Baddeley, Isabella Mattocks, Charles Lee Lewes, Harriet Pye Esten, Elizabeth Billington, Anna Maria Crouch, Anna Selina Storace, Joseph George Holman, Elizabeth Younge (later Pope),etc.Vol. 1: Comus by John Milton, Maid of the Mill, School for Fathers and Love in a Village by Isaac Bickerstaff, The Beggar's Opera by John Gay. Vol. 2: Venice… Read More
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Bell's British Theatre
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Bell's British Theatre: Second edition with illustrations by James Roberts

by John Bell

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Incomplete run of 17 volumes (of 21) of the second edition of John Bell's British Theatre, the first published in 1776-78.Volumes 1-12 and 14-19 (missing volumes 13, 14, 20, 21), each with five plays complete, with all 17 frontispieces and 85 fold-out theatrical portraits by James Roberts, engraved by Reading, Thornthwaite, Walker, etc. Portraits include actors, actresses and opera singers of the Georgian stage including Sarah Siddons, Thomas Sheridan, David Garrick, Ann Barry, Mary Ann Yates, Joseph Vernon, Priscilla Hopkins, Ann Brown, etc.Vol. 1: Tragedies: Zara by Aaron Hill, Venice Preserved by Thomas Otway, Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe, The Siege of Damascus by John Hughes, The Distrest Mother by Ambrose Philips. Vol. 2: Comedies: The Provok'd Wife by John Vanburgh, Every Man in his Humour by Ben Jonson, The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar, The Old Batchelor by William Congreve, The Committee by R. Howard.Vol. 3: Tragedies: The Earl of Essex by Henry Jones, Tamerlane by Nicholas Rowe, The… Read More
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British Theatrical Gallery
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British Theatrical Gallery: A Collection of Whole Length Portraits with Biographical Notices

by Daniel Terry

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Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.
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Galerie Dramatique: Vols. 1-4
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Galerie Dramatique: Vols. 1-4: Costumes des Theatres de Paris

by Alexandre Lacauchie

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Collection of 277 hand-coloured lithographic portraits of French actors and actresses from the first 4 volumes of this rare series.No title page or prelims, mostly disbound plates loosely inserted within original bindings for Vol. 1 and 2, plate numbers from 1 to 392.Portraits of actors, actresses, dancers and opera singers by Alexandre Lacauchie and Victor Dollet, lithographed by Jules Rigo, Decan, Lebref.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Condition: Red leather bindings with fine gilt decoration on spines and boards, water damaged but holding, acting as portfolio for the loose plates. Plates with some damp-staining to lower edge, mostly outside the image, toning and spotting. Most plates disbound but all with vibrant fine hand coloring and gum arabic high lighting. Sold as a collection of plates.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois Victor Dollet (1815-??) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker.
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Galerie Dramatique: Vol. 7
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Galerie Dramatique: Vol. 7: Costumes des Theatres de Paris

by Alexandre Lacauchie

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Volume 7 only of the 10-volume collection of stage portraits from the mid-19th century.Title page with vignette and 83 (of 100) handcoloured lithographic plates of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their roles by Alexandre Lacauchie, Victor Dollet and Louis Lassalle, lithographed by Decan and Destouches, Paris.Includes the famous Italian ballerinas Fanny Cerrito and Caroline Rosati, French dancer Marie Guy-Stephan, actress Mlle. Alphonsine, soprano Marie-Charlotte Lemercier, and many more mid-century stars.Missing plates 601 603 606 607 609 614 619 625 637 638 670 671 674 675 681 697 and 700.The series was published from 1844-1870 in 10 volumes with 1,000 plates.Condition: Half red buckram split on the gutter, marble boards scuffed, but plates bright and vivid with fine handcolour, a few slightly spotted.Considered to be the most important French artists gallery of the 19th century.Alexandre Lacauchie (1814-1886) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer. Jean Francois… Read More
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Players of the Day
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Players of the Day: A Series of Portraits in Colour of Theatrical Celebrities of the Present Time

by [George Newnes publisher]

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Very good copy of this splendid Edwardian book of theatre portraits
With all 48 tipped-in colour-printed photographs of stars of the Belle Epoque
All the portraits very dramatically manipulated with colour in an almost Klimt-like style, several beauties depicted like Russian Ikons
The stars include French global star Sarah Bernhardt in Izeyl, American beauty Miss Maud Jeffries and English actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm in Herod: A Tragedy, Charles Hawtrey in A Message from Mars, American actor William Hooker Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, Coquelin Aine as Napoleon Bonaparte and Mme. Jane Hading as Josephine in Plus Que Reine, comedian Huntley Wright as Li in the Chinese musical comedy San Toy, or the Emperor's Own, American society beauty turned stage actress Mrs Brown Potter, and many other opera singers, dramatic actors, comedians, music hall and vaudeville performers of the era. Many would go on to have long careers on stage and even in motion pictures in the next decades.
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Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans differents roles
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Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans differents roles: [Portraits of Actors and Actresses in different roles]

by A. Colin and L. Marin

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Rare complete set of 70 hand-coloured lithographic portraits of French actors and actresses on the Paris stage, circa 1825. Also known as Collection de portraits des artistes des theatres de Paris.Fine hand-coloured portraits of actors, opera singers and ballet dancers in costume of their famous roles by Alexandre-Marie Colin and Louis Marin-Lavigne, lithographed by F. Noel.Artistes include actors Jean-Baptiste Firmin, Joseph-Isidore Samson, Jenny Vertpre and Mlle. Pauline, opera singers Louis Fereol, Louise Therese Lemonnier, Felicite Pradher, Adolphe Nourrit, Caroline Branchu and Mlle. Grassari, ballet dancers Marie Cheza, Louise Pierson and Zelie Molard, mime artist Charles-Francois Mazurier.Condition: Original marble boards rebound into a portfolio with buckram spine, all 70 plates loose inside. Plates fine and vibrant with excellent handcolouring, a few with repairs. Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1875) was a French painter of historical and genre subjects. Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne (1797-1860)… Read More
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