Theatre and Design.- Mathews (Mrs.) Memoirs of Charles Mathews, 4 vol., first edition, 14 plates, (4 double-page) each vol. with bookplates of Charles B. Cochran to marbled endpapers, half-titles, engraved vignettes to titles, contemporary calf, gilt, red and black morocco panels to spine, t.e.g., 1838-1839 § Moses (Henry) Designs of Modern Costume, &c., 29 engraved plates, many captioned, foxed and marked, pencil inscription to front endpaper 'M.F. Messel, Bought at Saxtons Book Shop, North Street Brighton, Summer, 1947', red morocco, gilt, rubbed, light marks, decorative spine with gilt titles, spine ends and corners bumped, g.e, [c. 1823] § Lacroix (Paul) Les Arts au Moyen Age et l'epoque de la Renaissance, fifth edition, chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gold, tissue guards, illustrations, foxing, bookplate of Leonard Charles Rudolf Messel to front pastedown, contemporary half leather, black morocco panel and raised bands to spine, speckled edges, Paris, 1874, 4to, (6) *** Sir Charles Blake Cochran (1872-1951) was an English impresario and theatrical producer of the most successful musical revues, plays and musicals of the 1920 and 1930s. Following an exhibition of Oliver Messel's masks at the Claridge Galleries, London, 1925, Charles B. Cochran engaged the young Messel to design costumes, masks and sets for his numerous revues at the London Pavilion. Messel's lavish costume and set designs for Cochran's 1932 Adelphi Theatre production, Helen, directed by Max Reinhardt, secured Oliver Messel's critical success as one of the foremost stage, costume, interior and architectural designers of the twentieth century. Charles Mathews (1776-1835) was an English comic actor and theatre manager at the Adelphi Theatre, London: Maud Frances Sambourne (1875-1960) was the mother of English artist, architect and set designer, Oliver Messel (1904-1978) and the only daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) English cartoonist, illustrator and draftsman for Punch magazine. Maud married Leonard Charles Rudolf Messel (1872-1953) who upon his father's death in 1915 inherited 'Nymans,' Cuckfield, West Sussex.
Theatre and Design.- Mathews (Mrs.) Memoirs of Charles Mathews, 4 vol., first edition, 14 plates, (4 double-page) each vol. with bookplates of Charles B. Cochran to marbled endpapers, half-titles, engraved vignettes to titles, contemporary calf, gilt, red and black morocco panels to spine, t.e.g., 1838-1839 § Moses (Henry) Designs of Modern Costume, &c., 29 engraved plates, many captioned, foxed and marked, pencil inscription to front endpaper 'M.F. Messel, Bought at Saxtons Book Shop, North Street Brighton, Summer, 1947', red morocco, gilt, rubbed, light marks, decorative spine with gilt titles, spine ends and corners bumped, g.e, [c. 1823] § Lacroix (Paul) Les Arts au Moyen Age et l'epoque de la Renaissance, fifth edition, chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gold, tissue guards, illustrations, foxing, bookplate of Leonard Charles Rudolf Messel to front pastedown, contemporary half leather, black morocco panel and raised bands to spine, speckled edges, Paris, 1874, 4to, (6) *** Sir Charles Blake Cochran (1872-1951) was an English impresario and theatrical producer of the most successful musical revues, plays and musicals of the 1920 and 1930s. Following an exhibition of Oliver Messel's masks at the Claridge Galleries, London, 1925, Charles B. Cochran engaged the young Messel to design costumes, masks and sets for his numerous revues at the London Pavilion. Messel's lavish costume and set designs for Cochran's 1932 Adelphi Theatre production, Helen, directed by Max Reinhardt, secured Oliver Messel's critical success as one of the foremost stage, costume, interior and architectural designers of the twentieth century. Charles Mathews (1776-1835) was an English comic actor and theatre manager at the Adelphi Theatre, London: Maud Frances Sambourne (1875-1960) was the mother of English artist, architect and set designer, Oliver Messel (1904-1978) and the only daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) English cartoonist, illustrator and draftsman for Punch magazine. Maud married Leonard Charles Rudolf Messel (1872-1953) who upon his father's death in 1915 inherited 'Nymans,' Cuckfield, West Sussex.
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