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IN AND ABOUT DRURY LANE AND OTHER PAPERS REPRINTED FROM THE PAGES OF THE 'TEMPLE BAR' MAGAZINE

1881ST20859London: Richard Bentley & Son 1881. FIRST EDITION. 230 x 132 mm. 8 x 5 1/4". <br/> QUITE HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY FLECKED CALF covers with a double gilt fillet frame with rosette cornerpieces raised bands spines gilt in compartments with a central urn framed by scrolling foliage red and green morocco labels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 90 PLATES most protected by tissue guards. Spines just slightly sunned occasional light offsetting from plates a handful of plates with mild foxing but a fine copy extremely fresh and quite clean in an unworn extremely lustrous binding.<br/> <br/> Extra-illustrated and attractively bound this is an appealing copy of John Doran's vignettes of 19th century London life and the theatre. A prolific writer of Irish origin Doran 1807-78 worked as a private tutor then became a full-time author and journalist editing the "Church and State Gazette" and the "Atheneum." He produced many works usually historical biographies but also wrote extensively about the theatre a lifelong passion. He had tried his hand at playwriting as a young man and writes about the subject here with all the enthusiasm of a confirmed playgoer. The present volume is made up of essays nearly all originally published in the "Temple Bar Magazine" to which Doran regularly contributed. This periodical which ran from 1860 to 1906 was a leading literary magazine of the day publishing works by Wilkie Collins Arthur Conan Doyle Anthony Trollope and Robert Louis Stevenson among others. In our two handsome volumes here the editors have collected Doran's pieces about the theatre as the title suggests but also historical vignettes biographical sketches and commentaries on modern life and his own experiences told as the introduction puts it "with a sprightly wit." The present copy is enriched with a large number of attractive plates primarily portraits depicting figures discussed from actors to nobility together with occasional illustrations of unusual scenes and events such as Lord Nelson's funeral carriage. Richard Bentley & Son unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis780,00 $US≈ 659,96 €

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