The British theatre; . or, a collection of plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt books.
Elizabeth Simpson, Mrs Joseph Inchbald (1753-1821)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3092712
Summary
Bibliographic description
25v. . 8vo.. Vols. 1-24 on shelf G.2. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Imperfect: lacks vol. XXV.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: "S. M. Hobson".. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather; decorative rules to form a border; upper and lower covers diced; corner edges gilt rolled; spines gilt tooled; green and black spine labels, green labels gilt lettered; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled to match.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Simpson, Mrs Joseph Inchbald (1753-1821)