A catalogue of the extensive collection of books relating to the drama, the property of Alec Clunes, Esq., removed from Wimbledon. The first portion. [ Hodgson & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 30 June-1 May 1966 ].

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Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo, 44 pp. 636 lots. Items from the collection of the actor and theatrical manager Alexander Sheriff de Moro Clunes (1912 - 1970), of West Place, Wimbledon Common. The sale comprised: "collected editions of English dramatists: Shakespeare, Dekker, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, Cartwright [1651], Davenant [1673], with the Huth copy of the Works, 5 vols., full morocco, Dryden, Congreve and others - fine sets of Dodsley's Old English Plays, by W.C. Hazlitt, The Mermaid Series, Dramatists of the Restoration, and Bell's British Theatre, in full morocco - first editions of play by 18th century dramatists. Rainold's Overthrow of Stage Plays, 1629 - Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, 1693 - Aaron Hill's, The Actor, 1750 - Histories of the Stage and Books on Dramatic Criticism by Payne Collier, Doran, Ward, Fleay, Chambers, Bentley, and others. Lives of actors and actresses, including David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Mrs. Siddons, J.P. Kemble, Fanny Kemble, Charles Mathews, W.C. Macready, and others, several being extra-illustrated and bound in full morocco - books on Italian and French comedy. With other properties, including 16th and 17th century books - Hickeringill's Jamaica Viewed, 1661 - Camden's Britannia, 1722 - first editions of Scott's Novels, in boards uncut - modern books relating to Africa. Issues from the Kelmscott, Doves, Golden Cockerel, and other modern presses." Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58742

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