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COOKE, Charles. Illustrations to the British Theatre. [London: 1821]. 8°. Engraved title and 58 plates (some mainly marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary red half calf with original label on upper cover, spine decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed, lightly soiled). Provenance: John Steavenson (armorial bookplate).
With Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (London, 1699, fourth edition, contemporary calf) and Asia Booth Clarke's The Elder and the Younger Booth (Boston, 1882, INSCRIBED BY EDWIN BOOTH TO GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. Edwin Booth was brother of actor John Wilkes Booth who assassinated President Lincoln). (3)
With Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (London, 1699, fourth edition, contemporary calf) and Asia Booth Clarke's The Elder and the Younger Booth (Boston, 1882, INSCRIBED BY EDWIN BOOTH TO GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. Edwin Booth was brother of actor John Wilkes Booth who assassinated President Lincoln). (3)
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