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DISHER, M. Willson (pseud. WILLSON, Maurice)

Clowns and Pantomimes

Clowns and Pantomimes

A study of the evolution of clownship and of pantomime from the earliest times to the present day. The book contains, among much other new material, the authentic life story of the famous GROCK.

Stock Code 121656

London, Constable & co. ltd, 1925,

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'.....all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by the head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion.' (Sidney)

1st edition; 4to (260 x 200mm); frontispiece in colour, title, further 72 illustrations in b/w and photographic plates, usual age-toning, mild offsetting to endpapers; publisher's orange cloth with gilt-blocked vignette, gilt title to spine with gilt-blocked decoration, dust-jacket is price-clipped, split along upper panel and hinge, minor chips, loss to extremities and fading to spine, gilt top-edge, spotting to others which are untrimmed, very good; [xx], [2], 344pp, [2].

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