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Theatre Royal Drury Lane For the Benefit of Mr. Wallack Stage-Manager
1831003478London: J. Tabby Printer 1831. Single sided broadside approximately 215mm x 340mm in size. Slightly chipped to edges small spot to centre and one towards foot otherwise quite bright and clean. A benefit for Mr. James Wallack an actor and later manager with a Napoleon related play 'The Little Corporal; or the School of Bonaparte' relating to his time at the military school at Brienne and the celebrated snow ball fight led by Napoleon in the winter of 1783-4 with a 'terrific bombardment with snow balls!' Also appearing were Cooke's Equestrian establishment and his 'celebrated stud of ponies' promising a 'grand attack of Lilliputian cavalry'. The printer was I think J.ohn Tabby whose printing of his own imprint doesn't act as a very good advert for his services see BBTI. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. J. Tabby [Printer] Paperback
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