Lot 900
900
THEATRE -- MACREADY, W. C. Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters, edited by Sir Frederick Pollock. London: Macmillan, 1875. 2 volumes extended to 4, 8° (220 x 135mm). Engraved title vignette and plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ca. 150 engraved portraits, and autograph letters by W. C. Macready, Mrs. Kemble, Ellen Kean and others, most indentd and inlaid to size. Dark blue morocco gilt by Sotheran, spines gilt in compartments, covers with triple gilt fillet borders and floral cornerpieces, top edges gilt. Provenance: A. Cowdray (bookplate).
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THEATRE -- MACREADY, W. C. Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters, edited by Sir Frederick Pollock. London: Macmillan, 1875. 2 volumes extended to 4, 8° (220 x 135mm). Engraved title vignette and plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ca. 150 engraved portraits, and autograph letters by W. C. Macready, Mrs. Kemble, Ellen Kean and others, most indentd and inlaid to size. Dark blue morocco gilt by Sotheran, spines gilt in compartments, covers with triple gilt fillet borders and floral cornerpieces, top edges gilt. Provenance: A. Cowdray (bookplate).

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THEATRE -- MACREADY, W. C. Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters, edited by Sir Frederick Pollock. London: Macmillan, 1875. 2 volumes extended to 4, 8° (220 x 135mm). Engraved title vignette and plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ca. 150 engraved portraits, and autograph letters by W. C. Macready, Mrs. Kemble, Ellen Kean and others, most indentd and inlaid to size. Dark blue morocco gilt by Sotheran, spines gilt in compartments, covers with triple gilt fillet borders and floral cornerpieces, top edges gilt. Provenance: A. Cowdray (bookplate).

J. Fitzgerald MOLLOY. The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean, London: Ward and Downey, 1888. 4 volumes, 8° (220 X 145mm). Engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with ca. 70 engraved portraits and caricatures, a number of reviews inserted, most mounted and inlaid to size. Red morocco gilt by Morrell, spine gilt in compartments, covers with floral cornerpieces, top edges gilt; together with 7 other works of theatrical interest in 12 volumes including John Adolphus Memoirs of John Bannister (1839, 4 vols.), Frederick Reynolds Life and Times (1826, 2 vols.) all but one work EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, and all bound in morocco. (23)
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Should read, "together with 7 works of theatrical interest in 13 volumes. 21 books in the lot.

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