Snagg Thomas (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited to 300 Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited to 300 Copies. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii, 110p. No 259 of an edition of 300 copies. A couple of small spots on the dustjacket and price clipped from the inside fold. Internally a fresh clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good +. 1st Edition. 110pp + xxii premlims (including an Introduction by Harold Hobson). Printed in a limited numbered edition of 300 copies. This is copy #215. Bound in green buckram with gilt initials and decoration on front and rear covers. Black title plate on spine. Sun faded top edge of rear cover. Crease to tip of spine. Dark green painted top page edge. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Brown illustrations on tissue guarded frontis and title page. In VG+ condition. Unclipped original light blue dust jacket with brown illustration and black lettering. Age-faded front and rear dj panels now cream colour. Dust jacket flaps remain light blue. Small tears to top spine hinge and lower front corner. Wear and tiny tears to top edge of front and rear panels of dust jacket. Shelf wear to lower edge and sun darkened spine of dj. All now protected in clear archival wraps. Kenneth Hunter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London, Dropmore Press, 1951. 1 of 300 copies. 110 pages, hardcover, very good condition in very good dust jacket. Printed on handmade paper.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first edition with dust jacket only 300 copies were printed this being numbered 217.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy in green buckram in a very good dustwrapper which is a little darkened on the spine. This is no. 99 of 300 copies "set in 10 point Monotype Plantin and printed on cream wove paper hand made by Millbourn of Totnes in Devonshire." Previous owner's small ex libris label on front fixed end-paper. Pp.xxii,110. Wood engravings by Kenneth Hunter. Snagge, who was born in 1746, was an actor who played with Garrick at Drury Lane and later in Dublin. This narrative of his experiences throws light on the theatre of his time. Kenneth Hunter (illustrator).…

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition 16/300. Thomas Snagg (or Snagge) was born in 1746, a member of an old and prosperous family, which had in Elizabethan times produced a Speaker of the House of Commons. Early in youth he departed from the family traditions so far as to become an actor. He played with Garrick at Drury Lane and later with great success in Dublin. Limited edition number 16 of 300 printed on had made paper.110pp with wood engravings by Kenneth Hunter. Ductjacket a little edgeworn and chipped, now in a protective sleeve. Kenneth Hunter (illustrator).…

LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies this being number 222. Hardback in green buckram with gilt to spine and upper board; dust-wrapper. xxii + 110 pages. Sl. shelf-wear and discolouration, esp. to margins and spine, of dust-wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. This edition, printed on cream wove hand made paper and bound in full green buckram in the London Craft Bindery of W. H. Smith & Son, is limited to 300 copies. This copy is number 204 of an edition of 300 copies only. The dustwrapper (now protected now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Near Very Good) is NOT price-clipped, but is very lightly edge-chipped with a 'sunned' spine and edge browned, but overall 99% complete, clear and bright. First Edition, First printing - the Original manuscript having been "preserved by Snagg's descendants". This copy shows signs of a label/? Bookplate having been removed from the front pastedown and a couple of 'invisible' blind stamps, but NO Inscriptions or marks, and in Very Good, Clean, Tight condition. Some Eighteenth Century Theatrical Memoirs by Thomas Snagg with an Introduction by Harold Hobson and Wood Engravings by Kenneth Hunter. Thomas Snagge was born in 1746, a member of an old and prosperous family. Early in youth he departed from the family traditions becoming an actor, possessed of 'an infatuation with the stage'. He played with Garrick at Drury Lane and later with great success in Dublin. This narrative of his experiences thows light on the theatre of his time, and on the personality of the writer. Overall An Excellent copy. See Images; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall, 1st and Limited Edition of 300 copies only. Illustrated by Kenneth Hunter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies of these 18th century theatrical memoirs, with an introduction by Harold Hobson. Illustrated with wood engravings by Kenneth Hunter. Fine in a Very Good, spine-darkened dustwrapper. Kenneth Hunter (illustrator).