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ref. 1241374228.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1912ref. 8239676John Murray 1912. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
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1892ref. 001720London: Robert Jennings and John Major 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition Re-Issue. 8vo. Volume I: xlii 421 pp. Volume II: 1v 428 pp. Volume III: iv 481 pp. 12 plates numerous engraved illustrations and facsimile autographs in the text A classic account of books and book hunting in France and Germany during the early 19th Century. Second Edition 1892. 2 1/2" closed tear Volume I title page to xviii. Age-toned impressions facing pages from frontispieces with some foxing throughout. Plates of Volume two show age-toned tide marks. Clean tight and strong binding with no underlining highlighting or marginalia. Mylar Protected. Professionally rebound in tan cloth with paper labels to spine. Robert Jennings and John Major Hardcover
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ref. 4859No place or date x 2 the other headed "A.M. Sep 25" to which another hand has added 1835. Total 4pp. 8vo two laid down on a page with minor defects and texts complete tending towards the illegible the other with bottom of page torn off with some textual loss again tending towards the illegible. In one he asks his correspondent to take up a bill of exchange that day "which I miscalculated for Monday" next - it will materially serve me without injuring you". In the next letter 1835 hard to read but he appeqars to be talking money with someone in need money he would supply before his Benefit and institute a transaction involving "Mr Peake". "After this week every night is a public or private Benefit at the Haymarket. In the final letter he mentions being ill all night and his writing in bed all day. He is sending various pieces: "the young English Gent" "I like it & wish it went to another Time - it would be much impressed by it"; "the Finale" "it was hard to do on account of the D-d short lines"; "an Abridgment of the Examination" "i hope it will do. I couldn't make it shorter". He'll bring along "The Introduction to Duett" although illness might affect their plans. He gives his address but in a quotation asks him to tell no-one of his address. No place or date (x 2), the other headed "A.M. Sep 25" to which another hand has added 1835. unknown
ref. 11432Undated circa 1802. 2pp. 4to. Good on lightly-aged paper. Divided into eight four-line stanzas each with the same two-line refrain. The first stanza: 'Fashion was formed when the World began And Adam I am told was a very smart man As for Eve I shall say nothing more or less. But that Ladies of Fashion now copy her dress. Yet barring all pother of this that & tother we all bow to Fashion in turn'. Containing witty references to the fashion for hunting boots and crops New Bond Street Tudor and Stuart clothing Whigs and Tories. The poem appears to have been popular as it was printed in various collections: attributed to Dibdin in 'Thespian Gleanings' Ulverston 1805 and printed anonymously in 'The Theatrical Banquet' London 1809 'The Syren' Newcastle: David Bass 1816 and 'The Roundelay' Doncaster: Thomas and Hunsley n.d. all with variations including the absence of the seventh stanza about 'The Fashion of Fighting' and the line 'And their Shoes were turn'd up like a Critical Nose;' printed as 'And their shoes were square toed yellow worsted their hose.' Possibly written during the Peace of Amiens in 1802-1803 as the seventh stanza states that 'Peace is the fashion'. Although it is likely that the manuscript is in Dibdin's hand comparison with an 1838 letter by him is inconclusive; the later hand is tighter and smaller while this manuscript is a larger fair hand copy. See Image. Undated [circa 1802?]. hardcover
ref. 1137129 Walcot Place Kennington; 14 June 1833. 1p. 4to. 15 lines. On aged and worn paper. The letter reads 'Dear Sir/ A general meeting of all the Dramatic Authors will take place at the Garricks head in Bow Street on Monday nexxt at One o'Clock. Can you continue to come among us as it is for the purpose of making some arrangements and appointing an agent under the new act - As many of your plays have been written within the last ten years the act being so far retrospective it is to your interest to understand all its advantages - I undertook to write you on the subject and also to inform you that Douglas Jerrold and Thomas James Serle will become subscribers to your work. One copy each - Am very happy to hear that your list of names are sic increasing'. The final reference is to Dibdin's 'Last Lays of the Last Three Dibdins' 1833 a collection of 200 songs which according to the Oxford DNB he published 'encouraged by Bulwer-Lytton's copyright reform . under royal patronage and wide theatrical subscription'. Dibdin is not named as the recipient but the item comes from a small collection of his papers. 29 Walcot Place, Kennington; 14 June 1833. unknown
ref. 11431Dramatic Author's sic Society 42 King Street Covent Garden; 5 March 1838. 2pp. 12mo. The letter is on the recto of the first leaf of the bifolium with the list in three columns on the recto of the second. Fair on lightly-aged paper. Dibdin reminds Davidge that at his 'first Anniversary Dinner' he expressed a great wish to serve Dibdin by his patronage but that 'absence from Town' prevented him. 'The Company were so well pleas'd that each present sign'd a Paper to come again - it is now fix'd for my Birthday the 21st. Inst and I take the freedom of enclosing you a List of the Patrons in the Hope I may be allow'd to add yours and enclose you a Ticket'. The cost is 'One Guinea each Transferable - Half presented to me & for the other Half the Landlord gives a very good Dinner and a Bottle of Wine & Desert'. Dibdin invites Davidge's 'Commands' 'in Memory of Auld lang Syne' Davidge was lessee of the Coburg and Surrey Theatres. The list names more than eighty individuals in alphabetical order beginning with 'The Hon. Edd. Byng' and including 'Chas. Kemble Esqre' 'S. Sheridan Knowles Esq' 'Rt. Hon. Lord Tenterden' 'Rt. Hon. Earl Waldegrave' and three Members of Parliament. Dramatic Author's [sic] Society, 42 King Street, Covent Garden; 5 March 1838. unknown
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1836ref. 001672London: John Major 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts bound in 1 volume xxxii 4 982 44 p.: frontispiece title vignette 8 additional leaves of plates 1 folded in-text illustrations and facsimiles; 22 cm. Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title: Dibdin's Literary Reminiscences. Gilt- and blind-tooled spine decoration. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Paginated continuously. Includes list of subscribers and index. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by J. Posselwhite from a painting by George Richmond. Volume 2 title page omitted in binding. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper for William Horatio Crawford Lakelands Cork with motto: Durum Patientia Frango. William Horatio Crawford 1812-1888 was a member of the prominent Crawford family in Cork and a renowned book collector and gardener. In Very Good Condition: binding is rubbed; slight loss of leather at head of spine; leather is separated along back joint from head of for 2 cm. and just starting to tear across spine; front endpapers slightly scraped; something formerly taped on blank page preceding frontispiece and back of frontispiece now removed leaving discoloration; frontispiece separated along gutter for 4 cm. from head; pages and plates are clean and tight. John Major hardcover
1791ref. 007574London: S. W. Fores 1791. First Edition. 18th Century broadside of song lyrics and hand-colored etching of foxhunting scene. Uncommon in physical form. Dibdin 1745-1814 was a singer-songwriter nearly two centuries prior to the elevation of that combination. There were always composers who publicly performed their own music of course. He was more versatile than that though. He also wrote operas novels and plays. He collaborated with legendary theater manager David Garrick and served for a time as the Music Director at Covent Garden. The "Oddities" for which this song was written was performed in 1789. Visible part of broadside under glass and matting 36 by 24 cm. With wood frame and matting 50 by 36.5 cm. The frame is of a burled cherry we believe the matting green with a thin white beveling and we believe most would find the framing attractive and worth retaining. S. W. Fores unknown
1814ref. 001146London: Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press 1814. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 26 volumes issued between 1814 to 1818 with a total of 104 plays four per volume. Extremely rare in this full and continuous set. A few illustrations accompany each play. This is an extraordinary collection of the popular and canonical theater of the day with some informative notes about the plays premier and players sometimes listing those of contemporary performances sometimes those who originated the plays. The plays include farces burlesques operas essentially musicals or operettas not full-fledged operas masques tragedies etc. Some from playwrights still revered and even performed such as Sheridan Congreve Milton Garrick Colley; others by now obscure writers. Also curious is the number of plays written by women and this might constitute an interesting springboard for study on female writers in the theater. Plays include in order of volumes up to just volume 18 to provide a sense of the range: The Rivals - Sheridan The Beggar's Opera - John Gay Venice Preserved - Thomas Otway The Irish Widow - David Garrick The West Indian - Richard Cumberland A Bold Stroke for a Wife - Mrs. Centlivre Isabella - David Garrick The Quaker - Charles Dibdin The Provoked Husband - J Vanbrugh and Cibber Colley Douglas - John Home Love in a Village - Isaac Bickerstaff Fortune's Frolic - John Till Allingham The Belle's Stratagem - Mrs. Cowley The Gamester - Edward Moore The Brothers - Richard Cumberland Richard Coeur de Lion - General Burgoyne Man of the World - Charles Macklin The Grecian Daughter - Arthur Murphy Maid of the Mill - Isaac Bickerstaff High Life Below Stairs - The Rev. James Townley She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith The Revenge - Dr. Young The Busy Body - Mrs. Centlivre Rosina - Mrs. Brooke The Fashionable Lover - Richard Cumberland Jane Shore - Nicholas Rowe Lionel and Clarissa - Isaac Bickerstaff Three Weeks After Marriage - Arthur Murphy The Hypocrite - Isaac Bickerstaff Cato - Joseph Addison George Barnwell - Mr. Lillo Midas - Kane O'Hara The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar The Fair Penitent - Nicholas Rowe The Critic - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Miss in Her Teens - David Garrick All in the Wrong - Arthur Murphy Alexander the Great - Nathaniel Lee The Way to Keep Him - Arthur Murphy Comus -- altered from John Milton The Jealous Wife - George Colman The Mourning Wife - William Congreve Tancred and Sigismunda - James Thompson The Guardian - David Garrick The Clandestine Marriage - George Colman and David Garrick The Roman Father - W. Whitehead The Inconstant - George Farquhar The Padlock - Isaac Bickerstaff Tamerlane - Nicholas Rowe The Wonder - Mrs. Centlivre Rule a Wife and Have a Wife - David Garrick The Tobacconist - altered from Ben Jonson by Thomas Gentleman A Trip to Scarborough - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Suspicious Husband - Dr. Hoadly The Siege of Damascus - John Hughes The Apprentice- Arthur Murphy Oroonoko - Thomas Southern Count of Narbonne - Robert Jephson Confederacy - Sir John Vanbrugh The Devil to Pay - C. Coffey She Would and She Would Not - Colley Cibber Love for Love - William Congreve Mahomet - The Rev. Mr. Miller The Citizen - Arthur Murphy The Orphan of China - Arthur Murphy Every Man in His Humour - David Garrick Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar The Mayor of Garratt - Samuel Foote A New Way to Pay Old Debts - Philip Massinger The Duke of Milan - Philip Massinger The Orphan - Thomas Otway The Recruiting Sergeant - Isaac Bickerstaff and on and on. Condition is very good. There are some dampstains in a few volumes and there is some other soilage here and there but generally the pages are clean and free of issues. Spines rebacked with modern calf featuring five raised boards and embossed title and volume number. Contemporary calf boards preserved and while generally scuffed and with wear along edges and corners these remain attractive. Bindings are tight. Modern endpapers. Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press unknown
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1905ref. 003972London UK: Virtue and Company 1905. Hardcover. Good/N/A. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 32pp numerous illustrations some plates with tissue-guards. Blue cloth-covered boards gilt titles on front bevelled edges. Heavily worn spine ends fabric is torn in places but not worn through; small tear half way up. Some wear to boards and outer edge bumped. Cloth on front corners worn through. Decorate end papers. Previous owner's name on front free end paper. Free end papers toned. Small Folio. Virtue and Company hardcover
1806ref. 608963Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery et al. 1806. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good. 8 very scarce early American editions published in New York and Boston 1805-1806 of popular farce and musical farces bound together in 1 volume. Period boards expertly and attractively rebacked in brown calf boards rubbed some browning and foxing to parts of text. PROVENANCE: pictorial bookplate of Samuel Parker reading 'Samuel Parker's No.' with several of his ownership signatures. For this scarce bookplate - see Slater BOOK PLATES AND THEIR VALUE page 189: 'Parker Samuel. Pictorial a Muse under a tree with lyre and books one of which she hands to a man who is kneeling as he receives it in the distance a landscape. Inscription : ' Samuel Parker's No.' No date but about 1810. An American plate. Contents: 1. Hotel: Or the Servant With Two Masters. A Farce by Robert Jephson New York Printed and Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1805. 2. My Grandmother A Musical Farce by Prince Hoare. New York Printed and Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1806. 3. Paul and Virginia A Musical Entertainment by James Cobb. Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1806. 4. Of Age Tomorrow: A Musical Entertainment by Thomas Dibdin. Published by John West Boston 1806. 5. The Delinquent; or Seeing Company by Frederick Reynolds. A Comedy. Printed by D. Longworth New York for George E. Blake Philadelphia 1806. 6. The Lock and Key A Musical Farce by Prince Hoare. Published by David Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1806. Includes: Tid-Re-I or The marriage of Miss Kitty O'Donovan to Mr. Paddy O'Raffety p. 1-2 at end. 7. The Road to Ruin a Comedy by Thomas Holcroft. Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository Shakspeare-Gallery 1806. 8. More Ways than One. a Comedy by Mrs. Hannah Cowley. Printed by Russell and Cutler for John West Boston 1806. Published by D. Longworth at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, et al. unknown