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Credit: Sales catalogue 20: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![243 DODSLEY (Robert) The Chronicle of the Kings of England. Written in the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians. By Nathan Ben Saddi, A Priest of the Jews. With the half-title. 1st edn. Lond., 1740. 8vo. Contemp. hf. cf. 21/- Bound with the 1742 edition. 244 D’OUVILLE (Sieur) L’Elite Des Contes du Sieur D’Ouville. 2 vols. in 1. Rouen, 1671. 12mo. Old cf. (worn) 21/- 245 DRAMA.—Gay (John) Playbill of the Theatre Royal, Jan., 23, 1776, of ‘‘ The Beggars Opera.”’ Scarce 21/- An early bill. 246 DRAMA.—Gwywn (Nell) A Dialogue, between The Dutchess of Portsmouth, and Madam Gwin, at parting. A Broadside Poem, printed on both sides of the page. Lond., Printed for J. S., 1682. Small folio. Excessively rare £3 /3/- “Port. Think not i’th’ Respeit of this short Remove To sit sole Empress on the Throne of Love. I was thy Rival once, and will Return To be thy Rival stil, and thou my Scorne.”’ 247 DRAMA.—([Kean (Edmund) and Macreapy].—Playbill for ‘‘ Othello’ at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Dec. 10th, 1832 21/- With Kean as Othello and Macready as Iago. A very important bill. 248 DRAMA.—[Kemsre (Fanny)]— Playbill for ‘‘ Much Ado About Nothing,’’ at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on Feb. 24th, 1831 £1 The part of Beatrice was taken by Fanny Kemble. 249 DRAMA.—([KemBLE (John Philip)] Playbill for ‘‘ Julius Caesar,’’ at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on May 6th, 1817 16/-— The part of Brutus was played by Kemble, ‘‘The Last time but one he ever will perform that character.”’ 250 DRAMA.—Poster for ‘“‘ Chu Chin Chow ” at His Majesty’s Theatre, depicting Oscar Asche in the title réle 15/- One of London’s longest runs. 251 DRAMA.—Poster for Gay’s ‘Polly’? at the Kingsway Theatre, by William Nicholson. [19—] 15/- 252 DRAMA.—The Programme of the first performance of the Henry Irving—Elen Terry ‘‘ Macbeth ” at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Dec., 29, 1888. Small 4to 10/6 Ellen Terry appeared for the first time as Lady Macbeth. 253 DRAMA.—Sippons (Sarah) Playbill for ‘‘ Mrs. Siddons’ Night,’’ at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, May 5th, 1800. The play performed was ‘‘ De Montfort,” the players including, apart from Mrs. Siddons, Kemble and Miss De Camp. Mrs. Siddons also spoke — the Epilogue 25/- 254 DRAMA.—Souvenir of Shakespeare’s Historical Play King Henry the Eighth Presented at the Lyceum, Sth January, 1892, by Henry Irving. JIilus. by Bernard Partridge, W. Telbin, J. Harker, Hawes Craven. Lond., [1892]. Oblong 8vo. Orig. bds. £2/10/- Of the highest dramatic importance, being a presentation copy, from Ivving to Ellen Terry, inscribed in his hand: ‘Ellen Terry [ Irving’s cypher occurs here: a cross through a circle} 1892.” 255 DRAMA.—[TREE (Ellen)] Playbill for “‘ Hamlet,’ at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Oct. 7th, 1835 15/- This was the first appearance of Miss Tree as Ophelia. 256 DRAMA.—Woopwarp (Henry) A 2}-page, 4to, Autograph letter, to Tate Wilkinson, — entirely in the Actor’s hand. 1775 £3 “No Head, theatrical, or otherwise, that I know of, so capable, or vequisite to extricate you — from the whimsical & disagreeable Situation you complain of,as your own... how disagreeable — it must be to be tack’d to thirty Opinions ; if others shou’d think so too, you'll have but little : chance of selling your remaining half; so I think you shou'd prudently resolve to keep it, and — comply with the Conditions that the Subscribers wish to bind youto...” Accompanying the above is a Mezzotint portrait of Woodward, without margins. DRAMA.—See also under AMERICANA ; BARRIE ; Byron; Dancinc; DICKENS; GwyN; HIGHWAYMEN ; Hope; JAMES; LIND; MARIONETTES; MAuGHAM; MEDICAL; Scott; SHAW; SHERIDAN; STEVENSON; STOWE; WILDE.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33154661_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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