Lot Essay
Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (c.1817-c.1842), topographical illustrator of Metropolitan Improvements (1827) and London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century (1829).
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
ADOLPHUS, John. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian, London: Richard Bentley, 1839, 2 volumes, 8°, author's presentation copy incribed to John Fenton, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH APPROXIMATELY 140 PLATES including views, portraits and original playbills, some coloured, a few folding (occasional light spotting) and an ORIGINAL WASH DRAWING BY THOMAS HOSMER SHEPHERD of the Surrey Theatre, later red morocco by Riviere, spines gilt in compartments, dentelles, g.e. (2)
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ADOLPHUS, John. Memoirs of John Bannister, Comedian, London: Richard Bentley, 1839, 2 volumes, 8°, author's presentation copy incribed to John Fenton, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH APPROXIMATELY 140 PLATES including views, portraits and original playbills, some coloured, a few folding (occasional light spotting) and an ORIGINAL WASH DRAWING BY THOMAS HOSMER SHEPHERD of the Surrey Theatre, later red morocco by Riviere, spines gilt in compartments, dentelles, g.e. (2)