Theatre.- Boaden (James) The Life of Mrs. Jordan..., 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plate, extra-illustrated with 28 engraved plates depicting actors and playwrights of the era and scenes from contemporary plays (these all hand-coloured, with 3 after Robert Cruikshank 1 after Lawrence, and with many engraved by William Ridley and several ff. culled from published works with notes on contemporary theatre, most pieces mounted to ff. bound in, a little foxing and offsetting, contemporary crushed morocco, a little worn, joints splitting, 1831; Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons..., 2 vol., mezzotint portrait frontispiece, most ff. browned and with marginal damp-staining, hinges splitting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, g.e., a little worn, boards damp-stained, vol.II. upper board detached, 1827; and 3 others, a 2 vol. Life of Mrs Siddons by Thomas Campbell and a copy of Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer, 8vo (7) ⁂Portraits in first include Grimaldi, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lee, Mr Dowton, Mrs Billington, Mrs Mattocks, John O'Keeffe Mrs Inchbald, and Her Serence Highness the Margravine of Anspach. Provenance: first: Edward Jolly and John Gayner (bookplates). Edward Solly (1819-1886) chemist and antiquary, son of the great art collector.
Theatre.- Boaden (James) The Life of Mrs. Jordan..., 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plate, extra-illustrated with 28 engraved plates depicting actors and playwrights of the era and scenes from contemporary plays (these all hand-coloured, with 3 after Robert Cruikshank 1 after Lawrence, and with many engraved by William Ridley and several ff. culled from published works with notes on contemporary theatre, most pieces mounted to ff. bound in, a little foxing and offsetting, contemporary crushed morocco, a little worn, joints splitting, 1831; Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons..., 2 vol., mezzotint portrait frontispiece, most ff. browned and with marginal damp-staining, hinges splitting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, g.e., a little worn, boards damp-stained, vol.II. upper board detached, 1827; and 3 others, a 2 vol. Life of Mrs Siddons by Thomas Campbell and a copy of Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer, 8vo (7) ⁂Portraits in first include Grimaldi, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lee, Mr Dowton, Mrs Billington, Mrs Mattocks, John O'Keeffe Mrs Inchbald, and Her Serence Highness the Margravine of Anspach. Provenance: first: Edward Jolly and John Gayner (bookplates). Edward Solly (1819-1886) chemist and antiquary, son of the great art collector.
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