WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT or Harlequin Lord Mayor of London, A New Grand Old English Pantomime. POLLOCK'S CHARACTERS & SCENES. With booklet.
JUVENILE DRAMA, TOY THEATRE, PAPER THEATRE. Benjamin Pollock.
Published by London B. Pollock 73 Hoxton Street Hoxton, 1880
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Circa 1880, approximately 172 x 215 mm, 6¾ x 8½ inches, 28 hand coloured sheets as required: 8 plates of characters, 13 plates of scenes, 3 plates of tricks and 4 wings, plus original booklet with play and stage directions: 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 3¾ inches, no wrappers called for, 16 pages of text including covers. The plates of Characters, the plates of Scenes, plate 1 of Tricks and plate 6 of Wings are mounted at the corners on sheets of grey art paper, the first sheet calls for Wings No. 6, 10, 28 and 30, this set contains No. 3, 6, 9 and 10. Character plate 1 is a little spotted and with a couple of pale stains to background, small pale mark to 1 or 2 corners of plates due to glue, faint pink watercolour smudge to a couple of plates, 1 or 2 pale fox spots to margins of a couple of plates, very small old paper repair to reverse of top corner of Tricks plate 3, crease across lower left corner of Wings 9 and 10, upper cover of booklet wrinkled, signs on lower cover next to spine that booklet had been pasted into album at some time, no loss of text, contents very nice. A very good plus complete set of sheets and with rare booklet. This pantomime was first performed in 1814 at Covent Garden and a juvenile drama version of it was issued by West, Green and Redington before Pollock acquired his business from Redington in 1876. See Speaight, Appendice B, page 245. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 48780
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Title: WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT or Harlequin Lord ...
Publisher: London B. Pollock 73 Hoxton Street Hoxton
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Soft cover
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WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT or Harlequin Lord Mayor of London, A New Grand Old English Pantomime. POLLOCK'S CHARACTERS & SCENES. With booklet.
Published by
London B. Pollock 73 Hoxton Street Hoxton, 1880
Used
Softcover
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Circa 1880, approximately 172 x 215 mm, 6¾ x 8½ inches, 28 hand coloured sheets as required: 8 plates of characters, 13 plates of scenes, 3 plates of tricks and 4 wings, plus original booklet with play and stage directions: 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 3¾ inches, no wrappers called for, 16 pages of text including covers. The plates of Characters, the plates of Scenes, plate 1 of Tricks and plate 6 of Wings are mounted at the corners on sheets of grey art paper, the first sheet calls for Wings No. 6, 10, 28 and 30, this set contains No. 3, 6, 9 and 10. Character plate 1 is a little spotted and with a couple of pale stains to background, small pale mark to 1 or 2 corners of plates due to glue, faint pink watercolour smudge to a couple of plates, 1 or 2 pale fox spots to margins of a couple of plates, very small old paper repair to reverse of top corner of Tricks plate 3, crease across lower left corner of Wings 9 and 10, upper cover of booklet wrinkled, signs on lower cover next to spine that booklet had been pasted into album at some time, no loss of text, contents very nice. A very good plus complete set of sheets and with rare booklet. This pantomime was first performed in 1814 at Covent Garden and a juvenile drama version of it was issued by West, Green and Redington before Pollock acquired his business from Redington in 1876. See Speaight, Appendice B, page 245. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 50213
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