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Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin, esq. : principally compiled from his own papers and memorandums, which contain his criticisms on and characters and anecdotes of Betterton, Booth, Wilks, Cibber, Garrick, Barry, Mossop, Sheridan, Foote, Quin, and most of his contemporaries : together with his valuable observations on the drama, on the science of acting, and on various other subjects : the whole forming a comprehensive but succinct history of the stage, which includes a period of one hundred years / by James Thomas Kirkman ; in two volumes.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection PN2598.M2 A3 v.1-2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kirkman, James Thomas.
Contributor:
Lackington, Allen and Co., publisher.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Macklin, Charles, approximately 1697-1797.
Macklin, Charles.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Grubbe, John Eustace (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copies)
Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872 (autograph) (Forrest copy 2)
Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy 2)
Stevens, Horatio G. (autograph) (label) (RBC copy 2)
Physical Description:
2 volumes : portrait ; 22 cm
Fingerprint:
erur ino- h.i- *LCh (3) 1799 (A) v.1
a-of 8.to gaas Mron (3) 1799 (A) v.2
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for Lackington, Allen and Co. ..., 1799.
Notes:
Signatures: v. 1: [A]² a-b⁴ c1 B-2G⁸ 2H⁴ ; v. 2: a² b⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G².
Pagination: v. 1: xxi, [1], 471, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; v. 2: xii, 452 p.
Engraved frontispiece (portrait).
Woodcut head-piece.
"Entered at Stationers' Hall."
Local Notes:
Penn Libraries RBC copy 2: v. 1: bookplate with name of former owner effaced on front pastedown; label ("H.G. Stevens 16 East 14th N.Y. City") on front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper; autograph in pencil ("H.G. Stevens") on leaf following front free endpaper; autograph in pencil ("H. G. Stevens No 16. E. 14 Street") at foot of leaf H2v; bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
Penn Libraries RBC copy 2: v. 2: autograph ("Horatio G. Stevens") on front free endpaper; bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
Penn Libraries RBC copy 2: each volume bound in full calf (boards tree calf); gold-tooled spine panels and cover-edges.
Penn Libraries RBC copy 2: each volume has damage to edges of boards and substantial damage to backstrip.
Cited in:
ESTC T155081
OCLC:
3025080

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