macready william charles 1793 1873 (9 résultats)

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxxiii, 315 pages 8 plates (including portraits), 3 facsimiles, 23 cm. Subjects: Dickens, Charles John Huffam 1812-1870 novelist. Macready, William Charles 1793-1873 ; Diaries. Actors Great Britain ; Diaries. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Etat : New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 1070.

Stipple, J. Robins, 1823,

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. A fine theatre engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, engraved size approx 10.5 x 7ins, 27 x 19 cms. High quality engraving and colouring - most unusual, decorative and attractive. Decorative borders and name plate at bottom with quote . Mounted and ready to frame. c. 1870.

First Edition. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 750 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Macready, William Charles 1793-1873. Actors Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.

1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of mount adhering to one edge, folded several times. 'Mrs. Macready' in a contemporary hand at the head of the page. Written in a neat hand the letter reads: 'Mrs. Macready presents her compliments to Mr. Kenneth, - any Letters directed to Mr. Macready Theatre Royal Birmingham will find Mr. Macready until Saturday Morng. 24th Inst.'.

2pp, 16mo. Bifolium, with the letter on the recto of the first leaf, and a long postscript on the recto of the second. In good condition, lightly aged, folded twice. A friend of Charles Dickens and his circle, and physician to Queen Victoria's uncle Prince Leopold, Quin founded the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1849. The letter invites Quin to 'dine with us on Tuesday the 23rd. Inst at a quarter before seven o' clock'. The pith is in the two postscripts: 'P.S. Do not forget the Powders you promised me for the improvement of my Nose & Legs but particularly the latter, for I am to appear in a new p[ai]r of leather tights on Monday the 28 instant, and people tell me, that to produce any effect upon the stage, I must fill them out - now unfortunately I cann get both my legs into one leg of the said tights. | 2d P.S. Pray give my nose also your serious consideration, for it is much found fault with - | Yrs. | C F M.' Mrs Macready was an actress, and had first met her husband in Glasgow in 1815, when he scolded her for not knowing her lines.

A nice piece of Sherborne ephemera, in unusually good condition. Between 1855 and 1860 Ransam House had been used to board boys from Sherborne School. 'The Sherborne Academy' to which the present card refers was run by John Kidd (c.1834-1891), FRAS, MCP, at Ransam between the end of 1861 and 1868, when it reverted to Sherborne School. The present item is printed in black ink on both sides of a x cm piece of white card. In very good condition, lightly aged. On the front is a pleasant lithographic illustration of the three-storey white building that housed the Sherborne Academy (with 'ACADEMY' in large letters above the window above the front door), Ransam House, with an adjoining building and various figures in the street outside. Beneath the illustration, in fancy lettering: 'SHERBORNE ACADEMY. / Principal, JOHN KIDD, M.C.P. / MASTERS FOR FRENCH, GERMAN, MUSIC & DRAWING.' On the reverse, in copperplate, is a list of 'Masters' (Kidd, F. Hollmuller, H. M. Custard, R. Brooks and 'Assistants') in six fields, followed by 'Terms per Annum' and an announcement regarding the notice required 'previous to the removal of a Pupil'. The side ends with the names of seven men to whom references are 'kindly permitted, starting with 'W C Macready Esq, Cheltenham'. This is of course the distinguished actor William Charles Macready (1793-1873), who had retired to Sherborne in 1851, taking an active role in the community there until moving to Cheltenham following his second marriage in 1860 (in the meantime two of his sons were educated at Sherborne School).