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1892218409東京. Tokyo.: 福田熊治良. Fukuda Kumajiro. Meiji 25 1892. Three colour woodblock prints a triptych panels loose each 24 x 35.4cm Japanese text in red identifying the actors and in yellow identifying the roles in the upper left of two panels and program title in the top right of the third panel further text within in a red fish-shape in the lower right of the third panel some offsetting of red ink on the first panel but not affecting the main image slivers of affixing tape to the verso of each print some surface wear and abrasion mainly to the verso but the three images in very good bright condition. Dramatic depiction of the famous Kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V 1844-1903 as Yosaburô and Onoe Matsusuke IV 1843-1928 playing the role of Kômori Yasu in the 1892 staging of "Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi" commonly called "Kirare Yosa". <br> <br>Images such as these were collected by Kabuki fans of the day who bought woodblocks of their favourite actors and then had the prints made up into albums so that they could be enjoyed much in the way poster books and other fan memorabilia of famous movie stars is enjoyed today. <br> <br>The artist Toyohara Kunichika 1835-1900 was acclaimed as one of "The Three Greats of Meiji Ukiyo-e". Many stories surround him including his boast that he had moved 100 times which appears unlikely but this claim combined with his hard drinking womanising lifestyle and overall "live for the day" attitude all contributed to his colourful reputation. His work was very popular during his lifetime with his use of bright imported chemical dyes and his technique of focussing the image on the actors face combining to make up his individual style. see 'Time Present and Time Past: Images of a Forgotten Master' by Amy Reigle Newland. <br> <br>From the collection of the late John Caiger lecturer in Asian studies ANU. . 福田熊治良. [Fukuda Kumajiro]. unknown
1876ZB532099NY: 1876. small octavo 86 pp. plates; library markings and a fair copy only with the original satin binding badly soiled and missing spine covering free endpapers torn away age spotting throughout . - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. NY: unknown
1869AQ21200Weymouth: Jeffery Brothers Dramatic Printers 1869. Single leaf broadside. Lightly browned and scuffed with chipping and marginal tears to edges and corners. An unrecorded Victorian playbill advertising an evening's entertainment at the Theatre Royal Weymouth beginning with English playwright Charles Dance's 1794-1863 two-act comic drama The Wonderful Woman! 1849. Notably the Charles Dickens museum holds an acting copy of Dance's farce once owned by the great novelist; it appears Dickens an associate of the dramatist and fellow member of the Garrick Club had been involved in an earlier production of The Wonderful Woman! himself. The Theatre Royal Weymouth opened on St Nicholas Street in the early nineteenth century and remained in business until the 1960s being demolished in 1968. It was at one point operated by the father of Ernest Wheeler the first independent manager of the Brighton Pavilion. . Dimensions 200 x 500 mm. Jeffery Brothers, Dramatic Printers 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
1843AQ21388York: s.n. 1843. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head a trifle creased. A broadside advertisement announcing a performance at the Theatre Royal York of a three-act opera by playwright Frederick Reynolds 1764-1841. . Dimensions 180 x 310 mm. [s.n.] unknown
1843AQ21390York: Blyth and Moore 1843. Single leaf broadside. Damp-stained to head a trifle creased very small hole to lower corner. A playbill advertising a performance at the Theatre Royal York of Love in a Village a three act ballad opera composed and arranged by Thomas Arne 1710-1778 with a libretto by Isaac Bickerstaff 1733-1808 based on Charles Johnson’s 1729 play The Village Opera. First performed on 8th December 1762 the work set a fashion for pastiche opera enjoying 40 performances in its first season alone. . Dimensions 190 x 310 mm. Blyth and Moore 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
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
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
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
18571037W. S. Johnson St Martin's Lane Charing Cross 1857. No Binding. Good. Single leaf double width broadside 508 x 502mm. Vertical and horizontal folds significant losses to bottom corners including a small amount of text. Both creased and marked. Late career performance by noted English actor T. P. Cooke six years before his death. Here reprising his most successful role of William in Black-Eyed Susan other notable performances included Frankenstien's Monster in Presumption or The Fate of Frankenstein; Lord Ruthven in The Vampire. 1857 <br/> <br/> W. S. Johnson, St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross unknown
1805010108London: 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. James Dundee Hardcover
1846AQ21379Leeds: Mann Printer and Stationer 1846. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head a trifle creased slight chipping to margins. An apparently unrecorded playbill announcing the final performances at the Leeds Theatre of actors Miss Fitzpatrick and Miss Acosta who often appeared in tandem in venues across the country in two comedies; The Love Chase 1837 by Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles 1784-1862 and The Honey Moon 1805 by ill-omened playwright John Tobin 1770-1804. . Dimensions 190 x 320 mm. Mann, Printer and Stationer unknown
1846AQ21376Leeds: Mann Printer and Stationer 1846. Single leaf broadside. Damp-stained to head lightly creased. An apparently unrecorded broadside advertisement for a staging at the Leeds Theatre of John Tobin's 1770-1804 The Honey Moon a romantic comedy written in blank verse and interspersed with prose. Throughout his life success eluded Tobin his work being summarily rejected by a slew of theatre managers. The Honey Moon was the first of his plays to be accepted in 1804. Tobin died of tuberculosis before the play was premiered at Drury Lane on 31st January 1805. . Dimensions 190 x 320 mm. Mann, Printer and Stationer unknown
1846AQ21378Leeds: Mann Printer and Stationer 1846. Single leaf broadside. Lightly damp-stained to head a trifle creased. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising productions at the Leeds Theatre of Edward Stirling's 1807-1894 two-act domestic drama The Last Kiss or The Soldier's Grave here with the title curiously inverted and George Lillo's 1693- 1739 immensely popular tragedy The London Merchant or the History of George Barnwell 1731 a sordid tale of an apprentice who murders his guardian. . Dimensions 190 x 320 mm. Mann, Printer and Stationer unknown
1846AQ34782Leeds: Mann Printer and Stationer 1846. Single leaf broadside. Browned and lightly spotted with chipping to edges and small hole to upper right-hand corner. An early playbill for the 1846 Leeds Theatre run of Irish playwright James Sheridan Knowles' 1784-1862 historical play The Wife of Mantua which premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on the 24th of April 1833. The role of the titular wife Marianna was performed by Miss Acosta who often appeared in tandem in venues across the country alongside fellow comedy actress Miss Fitzpatrick. The entertainment also boasts a preliminary orchestral performance of Boieldieu's overture to his celebrated comic opera La Dame Blanche 1825. . Dimensions 190 x 310 mm. Mann, Printer and Stationer unknown
