A complete history of theatrical entertainments, dramas, masques, and triumphs at the English court : from the time of King Henry the Eighth to the present day, including the series of plays performed before Her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, Christmas 1848-9. Containing many curious particulars of our early dramatic literature and art. / Embellished with beautiful engravings on steel by Finden, from designs by Grieve, Telbin and Absolon. Edited by J.K. Chapman.
Chapman, John Kemble
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248648
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 86, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., col. facsims., ports. ; fol. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven. / Park Close. / May 1934" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red cloth; double blind fillet (thick and thin) to form an outer border, decorative blind stamped cornerpieces; gilt stamped title on upper board within elaborate gilt stamped frame (foliage); rebacked, early twentieth-century? (spine partially retained); brown floral decorated endpapers.
Makers and roles
Chapman, John Kemble, author Edward Francis Finden (London 1791 - London 1857), engraver (printmaker) John Absolon (Lambeth 1815 - London 1895), original artist Telbin, William, original artist