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Piccadilly: H. Berthoud, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Cooper; Sharp; Clint; De Wilde; Waldeck. 4to, library rebound in green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and library name on cover. 72pp with frontispiece and 19 other plates. Contains 20 engraved portraits of actors in character by Cooper alongside biographies of the actors. As with other copies of this scarce volume, the frontis is of Mr Kean, rather than Mrs Siddons as originally intended. Some discolouration to the edges of the plates and foxing on text pages. Please see pictures. Ex reference library with stamps to the reverse of plates, single stamp on endpapers, first and last page. Pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Handwritten number on reverse of title page. No other obvious library markings.

London: H. Berthoud, 1825. Hardcover. Good +. [72] p., frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates; 36 cm. Contemporary black leather spine with plain grey paper over boards. The publisher intended the plate of Mrs. Siddons to be bound as the frontispiece, but here the plate of Mr. Kean was bound as the frontispiece and that of Siddons before the text about her. Contains 20 engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and dancers, including Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, dancers Lisa Noblet, Felicite Hullin, and Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, and Henry Gattie, Maria Theresa Bland, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, and Charles Young. The plates have not been hand-colored. In Good+ Condition: front board and frontispiece are detached but present; lacking leather over spine; foxing, primarily in margins of plates; otherwise, clean and solid.

London, H. Berthoud,, 1825.. Folio. (76)pp. 20 hand-coloured engraved plates. Twenty fine hand-coloured portraits of famous contemporary actors and actresses, (after paintings by Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others). These include Cooper, Copeland, De Begnis, Mm. Bland, S. Booth, Dowton, Fitzwilliam, Gattie, Harley, Hullin, Kean, Knight, Le Blond, Noblet, Mrs. Siddons, Simmonds, G. Smith, Smithson, Wilkinson and Young. Each portrait is accompanied by a short biographical notice. Daniel Terry was an actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage. In 1825, together with Yates, he bought the Adelphi Theatre, but this partnership only lasted for two seasons. Arnott & Robinson, English Theatrical Literature 1559-1900, 2228.

Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 4to, pp. [74]; with 20 handcoloured engraved plates by R. Cooper; bound in nineteenth century dark blue morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, light rubbing to joints; with the later armorial bookplate of Newton Hall, Cambridge, on the front pastedown; a very desirable copy.A highly desirable and sumptuously produced work, with hand coloured portraits of the leading actors and actresses of the day, after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc. Each portrait is accompanied by a short biographical notice, apart from Mrs. Siddons, which runs to 19 pages - as to be expected for… Read More