Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London...

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BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake; HAVELL, Daniel (illustrator).

Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London...

Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London...

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Illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved...

Stock Code 114116

London, J. Taylor, 1826 [i.e. 1827].

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A pleasing work depicting fourteen London theatres which typify the Georgian style, including the theatres of Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Strand, Westminster, and Lambeth. Each is given significant supportive text on the history of the building and the plays historically performed.

This was the final work of Daniel Havell (1785-1822), a celebrated engraver of the Havell clan.

First edition; 4to (33.5 x 27 cm); 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 aquatint plans, with half-title, light occasional spotting, some faint offsetting, half-title a little frayed with lower margin professionally reinforced, otherwise internally very good; original publisher's boards preserved in modern calf-backed box, paper title label to spine, edges untrimmed, upper board detached, boards a little soiled and worn; vi, [2], 92, 4, 16pp.

Abbey (Scenery), 227; Bobins 620; Prideaux p328.
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