Author: KNIGHT, JOSEPH (1829-1907) .
Title: Theatrical Notes By Joseph Knight .
Description: London: Lawrence & Bullen, 16 Henrietta Street, Covent garden, 1893 . 0. Limited edition (No. 65 of 250). 8vo. 10.25" x 18.0cm x 3.3cm. pp.xvi/pp.321/[p.] . Soiled boards, edges rubbed and bumped. Faux vellum spine, rubbed and soiled with repair top top of spine, All page edges deckled (rough-cut). Plain endpapers. Dedication to front free-endpaper: "To H. W. Acaster on playing Hamlet at Wintersloe, Xmas 1904. Whose rendering appreciated as it was by all was much appreciated by S. Howard Fisher." Half-title present. Verso with note: "Two hundred and fifty copies No. 65". Clean text throughout illustrated with 7 sepia portraits (photograure?) by "Walker & Boutall Ph. Sc." VG. ** "Wintersloe was a fourteen-roomed detached property erected in 1881. Such large Victorian houses in Moseley lent themselves to development as schools. The name Wintersloe above the door meant ‘Blackthorn’. Sampson Howard Fisher, who preferred to be known as Howard Fisher, Wintersloe’s Principal, was born in 1869 in Birmingham. His family came from the Bockleton, Pudlton and Kimbolton area near Leominster.

Keywords: 50191 Acaster Fisher Wintersloe Mosley Lawrence & Bullen Knight, Joseph Walker & Boutall Ph. Sc Theatre


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