THE WATERMAN. POLLOCK'S CHARACTERS & SCENES. With booklet.

JUVENILE DRAMA, TOY THEATRE, PAPER THEATRE. Benjamin Pollock.

Published by London B. Pollock 73 Hoxton Street Hoxton, 1880

About this Item

Circa 1880, approximately 170 x 220 mm, 6¾ x 8¾ inches, 7 hand coloured sheets as required: 2 plates of characters, 3 plates of scenes, and 2 wings, plus original booklet with play and stage directions: 165 x 105 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, no wrappers called for, 16 pages of text including covers. Small faint pink smudge to background of first sheet, another very small to upper margin of Wings No.1, the rest all clean and bright, sign on lower cover of booklet next to spine that it had at some time been stuck in an album, no loss of text, otherwise very clean. A very good plus complete set of sheets and with rare booklet. The play or ballad opera by Charles Dibdin was first performed in 1774 at the Haymarket and juvenile drama versions of it were issued by Skelt, Green and Redington before Pollock acquired his business from Redington in 1876. See Speaight, Appendice B, page 244. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 48781

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE WATERMAN. POLLOCK'S CHARACTERS & SCENES....

Publisher: London B. Pollock 73 Hoxton Street Hoxton

Publication Date: 1880

Binding: Soft cover