Sam Gatteño Books: Eighteenth Century Books, Theater
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An apology for the life of Mr. T --- C ---, comedian. Being a proper sequel to the Apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian. With An Historical View of the Stage to the Present Year. Supposed to be written by himself.
London: printed for J. Mechell at the King's-Arms in Fleet-Street, 1740. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. viii, 144pp. Price from imprint: price Two Shillings. Disbound. ESTC T72829. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2698
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Observations sur le spectacle de Rouen.
n.p.: n.p. n.d. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 42 pages. A4-E4, F2. Nineteenth-century cloth over marbled boards. An extremely uncommon book, bound together with another very uncommon book. Bound with: Lettre sur l'état actuel du spectacle à R*** . Some old staining. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1336
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The playhouse pocket-companion, or Theatrical vade-mecum: ...
London: Printed and sold by Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange; J. Wenman, no. 144, Fleet Street; and J. Southern, in St. James's Street, 1779. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [ 5],14-179,[1]pp. [A]2, B6-P6. Bookseller's advertisement on leaf [A]2v. The text appears to be continuous. Contemporary calf, repaired. ESTC t058085. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1905
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Le Comédien. Ouvrage divisé en Deux Parties.
A Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue Saint Jean de Beauvais. Et Vincent Fils, rue Saint Severin, 1747. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 312pp. [iii]ff. A8-V8 (V8 blank). First edition. Contemporary mottled calf. All edges red. Top of spine repaired. With four engraved vignettes by Gravelot. Some tail pieces. Cioranescu 52530; Cohen-DeRicci, p. 869. John Hill plagiarized it, and in little more than a translation published it under the title "The Actor" (1750). A Frenchman, not realizing that the Hill work was in fact based upon Sainte-Albine, re-translated it into French ("Garrick ou les Acteurs Anglais"), and it is this "new" work which provoked Diderot's "Paradoxe . " An early and substantial French treatise on the art of acting, addressed to performers of comedy, but with discussion of the techniques of tragedy as well; with examples drawn from the works of Racine and Corneille, and such contemporary dramatists as Voltaire (in particular, his Zaire). The author, a member of the Berlin Academy, and editor for a time of both the Gazette de France and the Mercure de France, wrote other works on the theater, and at least two plays of his own. One of the most influential books in the history of acting. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1907
USD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 257 | £UK 220.25 | JP¥ 43510]
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Les étourdis; ou, Le mort supposé, comédie en trois actes, en vers.
Paris: Chez Bailly, libraire, rue Saint-Honoré, vis-à-vis la Barriere des Sergens, 1788. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 48pp. A4-F4. Disbound. First edition. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 297
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Biographia Dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers ... Together with an Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the British Stage.
London: Printed for Messr. Rivingtons, et. al. 1782. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: [iv], lii, 496pp.; II: [iv], 442pp. I:[] 2 (-[]1), b8-d8, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8; II: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ee8, Ff4, Gg2 (- Gg2 blank). With the half-title to volume II present. Blue cloth. With the ownership inscription of Thomas Fairman Ordish (1855-1924) on the verso of the front free endpaper, dated 1880. Ordish was an English author who specialized on folklore, Shakespeare and drama. One of the richest sources on British Theatre in the 17th and 18th centuries. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1876
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The Companion to the Play-House: Or, An Historical Account of all the Dramatic Writers (and their Works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibition, down to the Present Years 1764.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand; C. Henderson at the Royal-Exchange; and T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1764. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. No pagination. I: A6, b6-c6, d3, []2, B6-Z6, Aa6-Ee6; II: A6-Z6, Aa6-Hh6, Ii4 [last leaf is blank]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, repaired. From the libraries of John H. Burgh, Esq. and J.A. Fuller Maitland, with their bookplates in both volumes. John Alexander Fuller Maitland (7 April 1856 - 30 March 1936) was an influential British music critic and scholar from the 1880s to the 1920s. He encouraged the rediscovery of English music of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Henry Purcell's music and English virginal music. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 134
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Lettre sur l'état actuel du spectacle à R***.
n.p.: n.p. 1765. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 24pp. A8, B4. Nineteenth-century cloth over marbled boards. Even though the title-page is dated 1765, the book ends with a date of 15 January 1773. The Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon dates the book to 1775, and attributes it to Nicolas Bavardin. Bound with: Observations sur le spectacle de Rouen. Some old staining. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1359
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The sham beggar. In two acts. As it is now acting at the Theatre in Dublin with very great applause.
Dublin, Printed: London, re-printed: And sold by C. Henderson, under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, 1756. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [iv], 34pp. Disbound. Upper margin of last two leaves slightly damaged, not affecting text. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2461
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The honest Yorkshireman. A ballad farce. Written by Harry Carey.
n.p. [London]: n.p. [For J. Wenman], n.d. [1777]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 6pp. Drop-head title. Disbound. ESTC T36617. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 981
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The Oeconomy of Human Life. Translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin.
London: Printed by T. Rickaby, for S. and E. Harding, Pall Mall, 1795. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 24, 120pp. a6-b6, B6-L6. Contemporary boards, rebacked. With 49 engravings by Gardiner after Harding. Morison, Four Centuries of Fine Printing, p. 197; Graesse II, 416. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1959
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Le malheureux imaginaire. Comédie en cinq actes, en vers.
En Hollande, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Delalain, 1777. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, [i], 109, [i]pp. a8, A8-G8 (G8 blank). First edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. Spine gilt. Bound with: Dorat, Les Proneurs, Ou Le Tartuffe Litteraire, Comedie En Trois Actes, En Vers. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1960
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Les Proneurs, ou Le Tartuffe Littéraire, Comédie en trois Actes, en Vers.
En Hollande, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Delalain, 1777. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, [ii], 87pp. A4, []1, A8-E8, F4. First edition. Additional engraved title-page. Contemporary calf, repaired. Spine gilt. With an engraved title and 3 engraved plates by Marillier. Cohen-DeRicci, p. 321. Bound with: Dorat, Le Malheureux Imaginaire, Comedie En Cinq Actes, En Vers. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1961
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Albion and Albanius: an Opera. Perform'd at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset-Garden.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street, 1691. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [xiv], 34pp. First edition. Blue paper wrappers. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2454
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Der Fall des Menschen, aus dem Englischen des weiland Herrn Dryden.
Frankfurt & Leipzig: in der Fleischerischen Buchhandlung, 1761. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. xvi, 86pp. Wrappers. Translated by Simon Grynaeus(?). Good.
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