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201787733Leuven: Peeters 2017. First Edition. First Impression. Thick octavo 24.5cm; original pictorial card wrappers; xxxvi34-940pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. A Fine copy of this substantial monograph on Tibetan ache lhamo theatre as it was performed in the pre-modern era before 1950 and as it is still performed today in the Tibet Autonomous Region and within the Tibetan diaspora in India and Nepal. 87733. Peeters unknown
179621336Paris 1796. 390 x 290 mm. <br /> <br /> Some foxing and minor wear. Hall III p. 385 2. <br /> <br /> Raucourt a popular and controversial French actress made her debut at the Comédie Française in 1772 as Dido going on to play all the classical tragédienne roles. "Her beauty and talent had made her famous but her not so secret love affairs with other women made her notorious. . Raucourt led the Sect of Anadrynes a society of lesbians in Paris. . At the outbreak of the Revolution she was imprisoned for six months with other royalist members of the Comédie Française and she did not reappear upon that stage until the close of 1793 and then only for a short time. She deserted with a dozen of the best actors in the company to found a rival colony but a summons from the Directory brought her back in 1797. . Her funeral was the occasion of a riot. The clergy of her parish having refused to receive the body the crowd broke in the church doors and were only restrained from further violence by the arrival of an almoner sent posthaste by Louis XVIII." Wikipedia. unknown
21321Le Kain is depicted in the role of Orosmane in Voltaire's "Zaire." 420 x 282 mm. No place no date but Paris ca. 1775. <br /> <br /> Slightly browned and foxed. Proof before text. Hall III p. 32. <br /> <br /> Le Kain was a noted French actor who performed with the Comédie Française. unknown
19104868Merida: Imprenta Constitucionalista 1910. Good. Broadside approximately 10.5x15 inches. Previously folded. Two short internal tears with no loss of text or image. Evenly tanned; faint tide line at left margin. Ephemeral early 20th-century Mexican broadside for performances of a traveling theater troupe starring Spanish actress Prudencia Grifell at the Teatro Peon Contreras in Merida Yucatan. The broadside lists members of the company and crew the repertoire of plays to be performed beginning with the comedy "Pipiola" by Spanish playwright Alvaro Quintero ticket prices and other relevant information. The advertisement is illustrated by photo portraits of Grifell and one of her fellow actors. Grifell began in the theater but went on to a long career in Mexican radio film and television following a self-imposed exile caused by the Spanish Civil War. She passed away in 1970 at the age of ninety-three only a year after her final screen appearance. The Peon Contreras theater still stands in Merida although it was seriously damaged by fire in 2022. Imprenta Constitucionalista unknown
1929155506N.p.: N.p. 1929. Collection of ten vintage route cards advertising the showing schedules of five different traveling theatre shows produced by Cincinnati producer George E. Wintz between 1926 and 1929. <br /> <br /> Among the shows represented in this collection are "Ziegfeld Follies" Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue" "The Vagabond King" "Rio Rita" and "George White's Scandals." The shows apparently toured primarily in the mid-Atlantic and southern United States. Four cards have postmarks on the verso and are addressed to a Charlie North likely a crew or cast member for Wintz's run of "George White's Scandals" from Harry Cook the props master of Wintz's shows. <br /> <br /> Itinerant or traveling theatre shows gained popularity during the early and mid-1920s with commercial genres such as vaudeville and musical revues finding particular success during Prohibition when jazz cabarets speakeasies and nightclubs would stage elaborate shows in order to hide the fact that audiences were actually flocking in to obtain alcohol. <br /> <br /> Cards range from 3.25 x 5.5 inches to 3 x 5 inches. Generally about Near Fine. N.p. unknown
189734855New York: The Century Company circa 1897. A Deluxe Reissue of the First Edition with some changes. Extensively illustrated from numerous sources many of which being actors in theatrical character in photographs or engravings. 4to bound for the publisher by W. Rouch in three-quarter crushed tan morocco over marbled paper covered boards the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt and blind central gilt devices in five compartments and gilt lettering in a sixth marbled endpapers t.e.g. xv 509pp. A very fine copy essentially as mint. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE GREASIEST AMERICAN ACTORS OF THE LATER 19TH CENTURY. While detailing his life and storied theatrical career Jefferson has also provided us with a virtual "who's who" of the New York performing arts scene during the Victorian era. It also provides great insight in life on the stage in general; including stagecraft rivalries between inflated personalities and extensive travel. An important piece of American theatrical history respected for both its candor and humour. The Century Company hardcover
1827AQ25469Doncaster: T. Brooke and Co. 1827. Five single sheets printed on one side only. A trifle creased stab-stitch holes to gutter margins early naive paper repair to verso of one playbill. A clutch of five - apparently unrecorded - playbills advertising dramatic and comedic productions at the Doncaster theatre in October of 1827 including Irish dramatist John O'Keefe's 1747-1833 The Young Quaker 1784 playwright and actor John Poole's 1785/6- 1872 immensely popular three-act farce Paul Pry 1825 and Edward Fitzball's 1793-1873 nautical drama The Flying Dutchman or the Phantom Ship which had debuted at the Adelphi Theatre the year prior. . Dimensions 140 x 220 mm. [T. Brooke and Co.] unknown
1864AQ25335s.l.: Imp. de las Novedas 1864. Single leaf broadside. Numerous early vertical and horizontal folds. A trifle creased. An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising an evening's entertainment at the San Fernando theatre Seville for the benefit of the children of the local asylum for the poor; the main event being a production of Rafael María Liern y Cerach's 1832-1897 immensely popular three-act comedy La Almoneda del Diablo 'The Devil's Auction' after which followed a selection of musical diversions including the performance of the 'La Batalla de Inkerman' a song commemorating the events of the Crimean War a decade earlier. . Dimensions 250 x 400 mm. Imp. de las Novedas unknown
1827AQ27774Wakefield: Hurst Printer 1827. Single leaf broadside. A trifle shaved at foot stab-stitch holes to one margin. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising a performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1751-1816 perennially popular comedy The Rivals 'by the desire' of the Gentleman's Book Club of Wakefield West Yorkshire. The Rivals premiered at Covent Garden on 17th January 1775. It was universally vilified for its length bawdiness and the poor performance of actor John Lee 1725-1781 in the role of Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Sheridan withdrew the play immediately and over the course of ten days rewrote it extensively. The play reopened on 28th January with a more capable actor in the role of the comic Irishman to significant acclaim and has remained a standard of English theatre ever since. . Dimensions 140 x 220 mm. Hurst, Printer unknown
1825AQ25615Wolverhampton: Smart Printer 1825. Single leaf broadside. A trifle creased top-edge ragged stab-stitch holes to one margin. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising an evening's entertainment at the Wolverhampton theatre on 4th February 1825 including a performance of actor and playwright William Rowley's 1585-1626 didactic romance A Woman Never Vexed to be followed by 'the highly celebrated comic Pantomime' Harlequin Gulliver; or the Flying Island an elaborate production which had debuted at Covent Garden during the 1817 season loosely based upon Swift's satirical masterpiece and featuring extravagant set pieces including 'the appearance of the flying island' and 'a view of the court yard and royal palace in Lilliput'. . Dimensions 220 x 420 mm. Smart, Printer unknown
46292Paris : Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt 1900. Octavo 210 x 130 mm stapled pictorial wrappers with portrait of Bernhardt in profile; pp. 18 with 3-page fold-out at centre illustrations advertisements; upper wrapper with some light foxing and partially remnant decorative blue ribbon contents very clean an excellent example. Original programme for Sarah Bernhardt and M. Guitry in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon which premiered on 15 March 1900 at the Théàtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris. The great actress managed this theatre between 1898 and 1923. unknown
1825AQ33560London: s.n. 1825. Single leaf broadside. Two small marginal holes to left hand edge. An early playbill marking the ninth performance of Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles' 1784-1862 adaptation of Schiller's famous revolutionary Swiss drama William Tell. First staged at Drury Lane on the 11th May Knowles' translation was criticised by Thomas Rea for its excessive melodrama making the hero 'so loquacious as to seem almost a braggart.' Despite this the performance of William Macready in the title role was much applauded and Thomas Archer was suitably despicable as the villainous character of Gesler. The first adaptation of William Tell performed in England was staged at the Royal Amphitheatre on 7th June 1802 with Knowles' version being the second produced in 1825; the first - and a more critically acclaimed - full English translation had been produced by Samuel Robinson only months prior. The subsequent evening entertainment is advertised as the sixtieth showing of Der Freischütz the Romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber 1786-1826. . Dimensions 204 x 350 mm. [s.n.] unknown
AQ14946London: J. Tabby Printer s.d. c.1830 Single leaf broadside. Central vertical fold. Creased some slight chipping to edges. A rare survival of a double playbill for the Theatre Royal Drury Lane advertising the Christmas pantomime performances of Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice and most notably a diorama representing Windsor and surroundings featuring a 'Hydraulic Apparatus.capable of discharging thirty-nine tons of water!' to simulate the falls at Virginia Water. OCLC records a single copy Alberta; COPAC adds no further. . Dimensions 430 x 340 mm. J. Tabby, Printer, [s.d., c.1830] unknown
1858AQ25652London: Printed by J. W. Peel 1858. Single leaf broadside. numerous old horizontal and vertical folds. A trifle creased and browned. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane of William Leman Rede's 1803-1847 two-act farce His First Champagne and Edward L. Blanchard's 1820-1889 comic pantomime Little Jack Horner or Harlequin A. B. C. and the Enchanted Regions of Nursery Rhymes! The bill rather verbosely described the pantomime as 'Allegorical Beautiful Comical Diverting Educational Fanciful Gorgeous Hyperbolical Intellectual Jovial Keen Laughable Merry Novel Original Peculiar Quizzical Romantic Splendid Transcendent Unobjectionable Volatile Waggish Extravagant Youthful and Zigzaggy'. In the pantomime an entreaty to literacy and knowledge Intelligence sends Proverb to help Jack Horner with his studies Jack fends off Ignorance with the Sword of Perseverance and sent to a 'Fairy Aquarium' with a coral palace to see what can be achieved by Imagination. The spectacular visual scenery provided by William Beverley in particular the 'Fairy Aquarium' was universally praised; indeed even the The Times who dismissed Blanchard's efforts stating that 'People do not expect to be edified and instructed at a pantomime' were effusive in their praise: 'As its wonders gradually revealed themselves and the circumambient air no less than terra firma became peopled with floating nymphs and soaring fairies the applause was vociferous and continuous and a summons first for Mr E. T. Smith the manager and next for Mr Beverley the artist presented the climax of excitement'. . Dimensions 500 x 510 mm. Printed by J. W. Peel unknown
1802AQ29612London: P. Boyle 1802. Single card ticket printed on one side only and signed and numbered in manuscript. A ticket granting admission to the gallery of the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a performance of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Apparently unrecorded unsurprisingly given the ephemeral and eminently disposable nature of the item. . Dimensions 90 x 60 mm. [P. Boyle] unknown
1826AQ33563London: s.n. 1826. Single leaf broadside. Slight chipping to edges small loss to lower left-hand edge. An early playbill for the 1826 run of Isaac Pocock's 1782-1835 operatic drama Rob Roy MacGregor first performed in Covent Garden on the 12th March 1818. Based on the Scottish folk hero of the same name and adapted from Sir Walter Scott's 1818 Waverley Novel Rob Roy the title role would be played by acclaimed English stage actor William Charles Macready 1793-1873. Pocock would go on to adapt further Waverley novels for the stage although less successfully including Montrose or the Children of the Mist 1822 and Woodstock 1826. . Dimensions 210 x 328 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1828AQ33562London: s.n. 1828. Single leaf broadside. Some loss to left-hand edge and small tear to upper right-hand corner. A playbill advertising the night's performance of Exchange no Robbery or The Diamond Ring a Comedy by known practical joker Theodore Hook 1788-1841. Most famous for the Berners Street Hoax of 1809 during which he invited countless men and women of note to a single house in Tottenham to win a bet with a friend Hook is considered to be the first recipient of a postcard - likely mailed to himself. The evening's additional entertainment consists of a new Operetta titled 'Love in Wrinkles or the Russian Strategem' and the ninth performance of Charles the XII or The Siege of Stralsund a two-act historical drama by James Robinson Planché 1796-1880 based on the life of said King of Sweden. . Dimensions 199 x 335 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1848AQ21387Leeds: T. W. Green & Co. 1848. Single leaf broadside. Vertical central fold damp-stained to head creased two short tears touching text at head - without loss. A double playbill advertising a staging at the Theatre Royal Leeds of Edward Stirling's 1807-1894 three-act drama Raby Rattler purportedly adapted from a story by poet and journalist Eliza Cook 1812-1889 though we can find no such publication attributed to her; indeed the only candidate title that we have been able to locate is Thomas Hall's fl. 1845-1864 'Effects' and adventures of Raby Rattler 1845. . Dimensions 380 x 320 mm. T. W. Green & Co. unknown
1829AQ22323London: Printed by W. Reynolds 1829. Single leaf broadside edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned. An apparently unrecorded late Georgian playbill advertising an evening's entertainment at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden on 2nd February 1829 including a performance of the juvenile comic pantomime 'Harlequin and Little Red Riding Hood; or the Wizard and the Wolf' starring Joseph Grimaldi 1778-1837 as Granny Rose; but perhaps more remarkably featuring a moving Panorama depicting the progress of Russian forces enroute to the Turkish capital presumably during the then ongoing Russo-Turkish War 1828- 1829. Though apparently unrelated to any of the performances staged on 2nd February this elaborate panorama was produced by the Scottish artist and noted scene painter David Roberts 1796-1864 and clearly a significant enough draw to London audiences to be noted in the billing. . Dimensions 220 x 350 mm. Printed by W. Reynolds unknown
1833AQ25373London: Printed by W. Reynolds 1833. Single leaf broadside two edges uncut. A trifle creased and browned early manuscript note 'turn over' / 'postponed' to head. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising the debut performance at the Olympic Theatre London of The Bridal Promise an adaptation by John Oxenford 1812-1877 of French composer Ferdinand Herold's 1791-1833 opera comique Zampa ou La fiancée de marbre 1831. As the manuscript note attests the performance was postponed an extant contemporary broadside suggests until June 10th. . Dimensions 200 x 350 mm. Printed by W. Reynolds unknown
1807AQ23253London: s.n. 1807. Single leaf broadside. A trifle creased. An apparently unrecorded early nineteenth-century playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden of playwright Thomas Morton's bap. 1764 d. 1838 remarkably popular comedy Speed the Plough; the venue at which the play debuted in 1798. . Dimensions 180 x 260 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1831AQ22321London: J. Tabby 1831. Single bifolium. 2pp. A trifle creased to extremities some marking to gutter split at head. The highlight of this double-page playbill is the detailed 'order of scenery' included for the popular Regency hippodrama Timour the Tartar by Matthew Gregory 'Monk' Lewis' 1775-1818 Gothic novelist and dramatist. Timour which debuted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in late April or early May 1811 is believed to be the first play expressly written to feature horses. This performance featured horses from Cooke's Circus which appeared in several different performances at the Theatre Royal in May 1831 and their involvement in three scenes is explicitly detailed here. . J. Tabby unknown
AQ21437Valetta: s.n. s.d. Single leaf broadside edges uncut. several horizontal folds lightly creased manuscript title to verso. An apparently unrecorded late Victorian playbill advertising an evening's entertainment starring members of the British armed forces held at the lavish Theatre Royal in Malta's capital Valetta. The venue was constructed in 1866 after designs by Edward Middleton Barry 1830-1880 the architect of Covent Garden Theatre. A mere six years after completion the building's interior was ravaged by fire forcing closure; performances would not resume until restoration works concluded in 1877. The theatre was destroyed during Luftwaffe bombings in 1942. The ruins today serve as an open-air performing arts venue. . Dimensions 210 x 310 mm. [s.n.], [s.d.] unknown
1843AQ21389York: Blyth and Moore 1843. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head a trifle creased. A playbill advertising a staging at the Theatre Royal York of playwright Thomas Morton's bap. 1764 d. 1838 Henri Quatre or Paris in the Olden Time 1820 a musical romance in three acts the title character of which is based on Henry IV of France. . Dimensions 190 x 310 mm. Blyth and Moore unknown
1843AQ21391York: Blyth and Moore 1843. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head a trifle creased. A broadside advertisement for the performance at the Theatre Royal York of The deserter or the point of honour!; playwright Charles Dibdin's bap. 1745 d. 1814 musical drama first performed in 1773 adapted from a 1769 French opera by Michel-Jean Sedaine and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. . Dimensions 190 x 310 mm. Blyth and Moore unknown
