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Rare and BeautifulBooks, Prints, Letters

Many concerning scenic design

Golden Legend, Inc.449 South Beverly DriveBeverly Hills, CA 90212

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Table of Contents~Delete3A Gala Performance. Tuesday June 10, 1958 Silk…

~Delete3Architectural design for a theatre backdrop signed "Tasca~Delete4Le Guide du Carrossier

~Delete4Les Franconis. Lithograph, hand colored. Printed Metz: Imprimerie…~Delete5Adolphe Appia,   1er Septembre 1862 29 Fevrier 1928

~Delete6Bakst, Leon,   ALS, May 28 1919 to Gabriele D’Annunzio~Delete6Bella, Stefano,   Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul

~Delete7Cappiello, Leonetto,   Nos Actrices~Delete7Chagall,   Paris / l'Opera Romeo and Juliet

~Delete8Cocteau, Jean,   Poster, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939~Delete9Craig, E,   L'origine dell' Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza con una…

~Delete10Craig, E,   Madame de Pompadour et la cour de Louis…~Delete11Craig, Edward,   A Production

~Delete11Gide André,   Le Roi Candaule, Drame in Trois Actes~Delete12Gozzi, Carlo,   Printsessa Turandot

~Delete12Kean, Edmund,   Mr. Kean in Richard the Third. Act IV…~Delete13Khmury, V,   Teatral'ni stroi

~Delete14Lola Montez,   Letter 31 Lines, 8vo. With autograph address and…~Delete15Macready, William, Playbill on silk

~Delete15Martin, John,   Seven Ages of Shakspeare, The~Delete16Miller, Arthur,   The Price

~Delete17Miro, Joan,   Lucifer~Delete18Mozart Wolfgang,   Cosi Fan Tutte

~Delete19Poiret, Paul,   Typed letter, signed "Paul Poiret" dated 28 April…~Delete20Rutherson, Albert,   Anna Pavlova in Le Réveil Flore

~Delete21Smit, J,   Complete Series of 12 Engravings of Sets from…~Delete22Stephens, John,   Oswego Falls  Opera House

~Delete22Taglioni, Marie,   ALS in French to Monsier Séguin English opera…

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A Gala Performance. Tuesday June 10, 1958 [SilkPlaybill] . Tuesday June 10, 1958. Broadside. 11 3/4 x20" Silk with tassled borders, with handles bearingshields of Royal Opera House. Fine condition. Red, blueand gold circular holder, printed in red. Presentationprogramme of the gala perfrormance in celebration of theCentenary of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.Original circular gift box.

Silk playbill for the opening of the Royal OperaHouse

Includes overture from Oberon (Rafael Kubelik), airsfrom the Bohemian Girl (Joan Sutherland ), The Trojans(Blanche Thebom), I Puritani (Maria Callas), PeterGrimes, Aida and dancing choreographed by FredrickAshton with Margot Fonteyn, Nadia Narina etc. Theplaybill was given to one of the singers in this gala.

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[Architectural design for a theatre backdrop signed"Tasca"]. (lower left) pencil.Pen and black ink and greywash, unframed 6 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (16.3 x 25.1 cm).

Most likely done for Monima e Mitridate. Drammaserio per musical with music by Nasolini, performedin Venice in 1799 (Sartori 15899).

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Le Guide du Carrossier. Le Guide du Carrossier(Paris ca. 1880). Album of 47 carefully hand-colored,lithographs (some heighted with gold or silver) of fancycarriages and sleds and two-seat runabouts

The lithographs are maquettes for illustrationsprinted in the periodicl Le Guide du carrossier etles équipages à Paris

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Les Franconis. Lithograph, hand colored.Printed Metz: Imprimerie, Lithographie etFabrique d’Images de Dembour et Gangel,N.130. (Before 1852) . Ancestors of the modern circus

A souvenir print of the famous Parisian Franconiequestrian circus with eight scenes of acrobats onhorseback. The Franconi's theatrical circus influencedRingling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey.

The Franconi troupe were not only wonderful horsemen -“veritable Centaurs-and jumpers, but also expressivemimes and elegant dancers of a kind rare in the moderncircuses for they had been formed in the special schoolsfor circus children.” (Marian Hannah Winter).

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Adolphe Appia. 1er Septembre 1862 29 Fevrier 1928.Zurich: Art Institut Orell Fussli, 1929. Large oblong folio(13 1/2 in. x 18 3/4 in.). 16pp. text in French plus 56mounted, tinted plates reproducing Appia's important setdesigns arranged in chronological order. Plates loose asissued, fine condition. In publisher's green cloth andboards portfolio (portfolio soiled and flaps defective)

. One of the rarest of all modern books on scenography.This volume was done shortly after Appia's death. Thebeautiful plates provide the best record of Appia's work,since many were taken from Appia's drawings held inmuseums and private collections. His productions ofWagner's Walkyrie (1892), Tristan et Yseult (1896) andother Wagner operas are documented, as are his designsfor the modern rhythmic dances of Jacques Dalcroze andIbsen's Petit Eyolf, Orphee, King Lear, and Hamlet.Finally, there are a series of drawings from his GluckIphigenie operas.

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Bakst, Leon. ALS, May 28 1919 to GabrieleD’Annunzio . Concerning preliminary costumes for

staging of D’Annunzio’s 1923 production of Fedra

starring Ida Rubinstein . This letter will be very

useful in sorting out the complicated production

chronology of this dance event.

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Bella, Stefano Della . [Entree du Prince di Toscane,Representant Hercul]. [Entree du Prince di Toscane,Representant Hercul]. Etching, 1661. The first of threeetchings from the festival book Il mondo festeggiante:balletto a cavallo, fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo delsereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimiprincipi Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisad'Orleans. In Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1661.(Etching on paper 17 1/8 x 9 1/16", with margins.Mounted on laid paper. An excellent impression, in verygood and clean condition, with slight chipping and someminor repairs). By Stefano della Bella after G.A.Moniglia.

The most arresting of the three Della Bella etchings takenfrom the festival book Il mondo festiggiante (1661).

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Cappiello, Leonetto (1875-1942). Nos Actrices. Paris:Editions de la revue blanche, 1899. First edition. Originalwrappers. . Preface leaf, and 18 full-page colour plates byLeonetto Cappiello, printed on rectos only.

Figures include Marthe Brandes, Cecile Sorel, SarahBernhardt (as Medea), Rejane, Megard, Jeanne Granier,Marcelle Lender, and Simon Girard. "Voici un artistenouveau, une vision nouvelle des types feminins, unefacon neuve de traduire par le crayon et le pinceaul'impression d'art" (Preface, Marcel Prevost). Rebackedin cloth (some soiling to covers and top edge trimmed abit closely). Plates in excellent condition, with veryoccasional soiling to margins. (3 1/2" x 12 1/4")

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Chagall. Paris / l'Opera [Romeo and Juliet.]. Chagall,Marc. . Paris / l'Opera [Romeo and Juliet.][Lithographic poster printed in colors] by MourlotGallery. Paris: Mourlot, 1965. On paper, 24x38”610x965 mm, sheet.

The decoration for the ceiling of the Paris Opera byChagall was commissioned by Andre Malraux, then theCabinet Minister in charge of Cultural Affairs. Thisinterpretive rendering of lithograph executed by CharlesSorlier, from a detail of the preliminary sketch of theceiling of the Paris Opera. This fragment is a tribute toBerlioz for Romeo and Juliet; it also includes pictures ofthe Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe Ref:Sorlier, Chagall's Posters, A Catalogue Raisonne, 96;Weill page 358.

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Cocteau, Jean. [Poster], Ballets Russes deDiaghilew Paris: 1939. . [Poster], Ballets

Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939. Advertising

poster for the 1939 exhibition

BALLETS RUSSES DE DIAGHILEW 1909 A

1929 Musee des Art Decoratifs. Palais Du

Louvre. Pavillon de Marsan. Exposition organisee

par Serge Lifar. Mars a Juin 1939.

Lithographic poster on paper, printed in color with

lettering and full margins. Signed "Jean

Cocteau" in the stone, lower right. Sheet size: 61" x

34"; mounted on silk, rolled. Fine copy.

Our 1939 poster was restruck from the original

lithograph of 1911 to advertise this, the first major

exhibition concerning Diaghilev and the Ballets

Russes.

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(Craig, E. Gordon) Bertotti, Scamozzi, Ottavio (1719-1790). L'origine dell' Accademia Olimpica di Vicenzacon una breve descrizione del suo teatro. Vicenza:Mosca, 1822. 2nd ed. Venice. Octavo. Original stitchedwrappers. Some Staining. (a) - (b)8; 31, (1) pp. Fourfolding engraved plates (230 x 360 mm.). Inscribed andsigned by Edward Gordon Craig “A rare little bookfor birthday.” (1957).

An architectural essay on the Accademia Olimpica andits theater, with four folding engravings of the theater.The theater of the Accademia Olimpica was begun in1580 by Andrea Palladio (1508?-1580), who died duringconstruction, and finished by his son Scilla in 1584,while sets were designed by the great Venetian architectVincenza Scamozzi (1552-1616).

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(Craig, E. Gordon). Campardon, Émile, 1837-1915. Madame de Pompadour et la cour deLouis XV. (Craig, E. Gordon). Campardon, Émile,1837-1915. Madame de Pompadour et la courde Louis XV au milieu du dix-huitième siècle:Ouvrage suivi du Catalogue des tableauxoriginaux, des dessins et miniatures vendusaprès la mort de Madame de Pompadour, duCatalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité dumarquis de Marigny, et de documentsentièrement inédits sur le théatre des petitscabinets, avec un portrait gravé d'après lepastel de La Tour et le fac-simile d'une lettre.Paris, France : Henri Plon, 1867.

A biography of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson,marquise de Pompadour, 1721-1764.

with catalogue of her possessions, including booksin her library.

Spine lettered by E. GordonCraig

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Craig, Edward Gordon. A Production. Being ThirtyTwo Collotype Plates of Designs Projected or Realizedfor The Pretenders of Henrik Ibsen and Produced at theRoyal Theatre Copenhagen 1926 by Edward GordonCraig. London:Oxford University Press, 1930. Firstedition. (Total edition 605: 500 regular copies as this,105 signed and numbered by Craig ) F&R A32(a). Largefolio, (20 1/4" x 15 1/4"). Red cloth with gilt design andtitle. Spine crown and heel frayed edges worn. Verygood. (text fine).

These 32 beautiful theatrical designs, eleven in color, arethe best contemporary record of the Craig version of theIbsen's play. Craig was invited to design this productionfor the Danish Royal Theatre in 1926 The Pretenders isconsidered second in importance only to the MoscowHamlet

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Gide André. [Le Roi Candaule, Drame in Trois Actes].Paris. L’Ermitage revue littéraire (1899). Presentationcopy of the pre-original first edition of his play Le roiCandaule with an autograph inscription at the beginningof Acte I: “Cette avant-premiére ...est retrouvée fortheuresement....” signed Andre Gide. Small 4to. Bluecloth lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

A pre-original edition and pre-performancefirst edition, with added material

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Gozzi, Carlo. Printsessa Turandot. Teatral'no-tragicheskaia kitaiskaia skazka v 5 aktakh [PrincessTurandot. A dramatic tragic Chinese tale in 5 acts].Moscow/St Petersburg, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo,1923. 222 p., Folio. Includes music. With 2 full-pagephotographic portraits of Vakhtangov, 22 black-and-white and 12 color full-page plates, with tissue guards,and many smaller illustrations in the text; showingphotographs of the production and sketches for costumesand scenery by Nivinskii. His designs were based oncommedia dell'arte models, although heavily infused withcontructivism. Rebound in blue silk with original coverby Nivinskii mounted. Very good copy, frontispiece is abit ragged, a few pages soiled and/or restored.

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(Kean, Edmund). Mr. Kean in Richard the Third. ActIV. Scene 4 - "Well, as you guess?". This print isdedicated by permission to Samuel Whitbread Esq. M.P.by his very obed. Serv. J.J. Halls. London: Jenkinsprintseller, 48 Strand, 1814. Tall engraving/mezzotint onlaid paper. 15" x 26" with large margins. This fineengraving, after a painting by John James Halls (1776-1834), was done by by Charles Turner (1774-1857), whowas royal engraver to George III. Kean was at the heightof his career in 1814. This portrait of Kean was oftenreproduced in smaller format. The original, largemezzotint is rare. References: Whitman, Charles Turner#283; NPG D21261.

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Khmury, V., Anatoly Petritsky. Teatral'ni stroi. Kiev:Ukrainian State Press, 1929. 4to (347 x 261 mm.), 26pp.,26 full page mounted color lithographs, many with goldor silver metallic inks and 25 mounted full page black &white plates. Original boards, spine defective, otherwisevery good and clean. All plates mounted on heavy graypaper and tissue guards intact. Plates by AnatolyPetritzky, text by V. Khmury. Text in Ukrainian andGerman.

Teatral'ni stroi is an album of superb costume designsand stage sets for Ballets and operas in a Constructiviststyle reminiscent of the decorativeness of Bakst's workand Alexander Exter's stylization.

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“Lola Montez” [Pseud. of Marie Dolores Eliza

Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld] (1821-

1861), English celebrity, adventuress, lecturer, and

danseuse. Letter 31 Lines, 8vo. With autograph

address and signature “Lola Montez / To Mr . . .

Editor of the Morning Herald, 13 June 1843”.

Defending her honor during the famous episode, in

London, 1843, when she attempts to debut as a

Spanish

dancer at a performance at His Majesty’s Theatre

Drury Lane, while a cabal denounces her as a fraud

and

adulteress.

“Since I have had the honor of dancing at her

Majesty's Theatre on Saturday the 3rd instant . . . I

have been

cruelly annoyed by reports that I am not really the

person I pretend to be but that I have been long

known in

London as a disreputable character . . .”

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Macready, William Charles (1793-1873). [Playbill onsilk]. November 17, 1837. Program of Werner by LordByron (Featuring Macready as Werner) and Auber'sopera, Fra Diavolo (first act). Printed in red and blue byS. Johnson. Victoria crown armory above copy. 19 x 121/2" with 2" tassels all the way around

With Victoria in attendance, her first meeting withMacready

Of Macready, Victoria said: "ranting a little too much attimes"

Of Victoria, Macready said: ” I could not help thinkingas I sat dressed for Werner, waiting for my call andlistening to the acclamation of the audience on theQueens arrival, of the folly and impiety of thuspampering and spoiling the mind of one human being...”

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Martin, John. Seven Ages of Shakspeare, The. London:John Van Voorst, 1840. With twelves plates, seven ofwhich are based on As you Like it; another is acharming title page. Quarto. Original ribbed green cloth.Gilt title on upper cover & spine. Small nick to spinecrown. A handsome copy.

Martin's essay discusses the antecedents to Shakespeare'sSeven Ages of Man. The illustrations are by WilliamMulready, C.R. Leslie, Sir Augustus Callcott, JohnConstable, Sir David Wilkie, William Collins, Alfred E.Chalon, Abraham Cooper, Edwin Landseer and WilliamHilton. The author, John Martin, (1791-1855) lived inWoburn Abbey. Bookplate of Woburn Abbey, 1873.

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Miller, Arthur . The Price . San Francisco: The Arion

Press, 1999. Large octavo. Cloth, paper labels. Fine

in slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated

with duo-tone offset lithographs by Stan Washburn.

One of three hundred numbered copies (of 326),

signed by the author and the artist. 128 p. The eight

illustrations (10" x 7") by Stan Washburn depict the

set for the play in great detail. The binding is full

cloth in a golden-brown color, with an additional

illustration by Washburn of a clock inset on the front

cover; enclosed in a slipcase with cloth edges and

paper sides. Extremely fine in slipcase.

Miller’s most successful work since Death of a

Salesman, The Price depicts a family betrayal

played out by two brothers who grew up during the

Depression. They come together after sixteen years

estrangement to clear their childhood home in

Manhattan of furniture. Long-held rivalries,

resentments, and delusions surface when they meet

amidst surroundings that prompt painful memories

of their father who became immobilized after losing

his wealth in the Crash of 1929. As they confront

each other, while negotiating with an elderly dealer

in second-hand goods, the viewer - and reader -

understands that ‘the price’ has more than one

meaning. Comic relief comes in the character of the

89-year-old furniture dealer, Gregory Solomon, a

wise man who is both scoundrel and saint.

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Miro, Joan (1893-1983). Lucifer. [Original lithographicposter in color]. published by the Martha Graham DanceCompany, New York, printed by Maeght, Paris, 1975.(Mourlot, 1050). Copy #51 of 75, signed by Miroin pencil, on handmade paper

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus. Cosi Fan Tutte. MozartWolfgang Amadeus,. Cosi Fan Tutte. Xilografie diBalthus. New York: Limited Editions Club, 2001. Firstedition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus this beingnumber 77. Folio. With 6 full-page color woodcuts byBalthus.

Text in Italian. Publisher's full peacock green silk. Frontboard with black leather label on, lettered in gilt. Veryfine. Housed in the publisher's matching suede-lined silkclamshell with black leather label, lettered in gilt onspine. Also includes three compact discs containingHans Rosbaud's opera in a pocket in the inside rear cover.With Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in.

In 1950, Balthus designed the costumes and sets for aproduction of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte mounted in July atthe 31ème Festival International de Musique in Aix-en-Provence. His decors captured the spirit of an opera thathas been described as “iridescent, like a glorious soapbubble, with the colors of buffoonery, parody and bothgenuine and simulated emotion.” (Rewald, p.45).

Ref: Balthus: Catalog of an Exhibition at theMetropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 29, 1984 to May 13,1984; Sabine Rewald; Metropolitan Museum of Art,1984

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Poiret, Paul. Typed letter, signed "Paul Poiret" dated28 April 1914. 1 page, folio (8 3/4 x 11"). Eleven lines.Written on Poiret's Ave D'Antin 26 address with woodcutlogo by Georges Lepape prominently in upper left handcorner.

The letter is written to M. Beaulieu, director of theComoedie des Champs Elysses urging him to consider aPoiret protege for an advantageous part in an upcomingplay.

Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France - 30 April 1944,Paris) a Parisian couturier whose influence was s greaterthan any other designer of pre-WWI Paris. Poiret dressedIda Rubinstein, Isadora Duncan, Eleanore Duse andSarah Bernhardt, as well as, many members of Europeannobility.

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Rutherson, Albert. Anna Pavlova in Le Réveil Flore. .Original drawing with watercolors of costumefor Anna Pavlova in Le Réveil Flore. London,1914 (10" x 14"), signed and dated “Albert R.”Sept 1914.

Annotated. On thin paper, laid down, clean break acrosslength of image, mended. .The English premiere of theAwakening of Flora (Le Réveil de Flore) was presentedon October 12, 1914, with scenery and costumes byAlbert Rutherson. Queen Alexandra was in a box in thecircle. Pavlova danced for the first time with AlexandreVolinine. The arrangement was by Clustine. Theperformance was a success and raised funds for the RedCross World War I relief. This drawing is reproduced inRutherson’s limited edition Sixteen Designs for theTheatre. Oxford, 1928. Albert Rutherson was influentialin bringing about the modern use of the painted curtain,which soon found its way onto the vaudeville stages, forwhich he did a number of productions.

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Smit, J. (Publisher) & Jan Punt (print maker). CompleteSeries of 12 Engravings of Sets from the AmsterdamSchouwburg plus two related plates].

. Smit, J. (publisher). [Complete Series of 12 Engravingsof Sets from the Amsterdam Schouwburg plus tworelated plates]. First version (1). Amsterdam: Smit,[1760s]. Muller 4264.

“the most famous of all Schouwburgillustrations”, the magnificent series of thirteenetchings of the theatre’s scene published by J.Smit between 1738 and 1772

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Stephens, John J. (architect and designer). (OswegoFalls Opera House). Archive.Washington, 1882 ,1883. Writing to his brother William C. Stephens ofOswego Falls (now Fulton) New York.

With details of the construction of the OswegoFalls Opera House, 1882:

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Taglioni, Marie.(Ballerina. B 1804 Stockholm; D

1884 Marseille). ALS in French to Monsier Séguin

(English opera singer and later theatre manager)

2 1/2p, . 8vo signed “Marie Taglioni.” Paris 12 Mai

1838. The letter mentions her refusal to work with

English theatre manage Alfred Bunn. Taglioni also

discusses a possible tour of England with Arthur

Séguin during her summer away from the Paris

Opera (where she had a six year contract).

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1er Septembre 1862 29 Fevrier 1928, 5

AA Gala Performance. Tuesday June 10, 1958 Silk…, 3A Production, 11Adolphe Appia, 5ALS in French to Monsier Séguin English opera…, 22ALS, May 28 1919 to Gabriele D’Annunzio, 6Anna Pavlova in Le Réveil Flore, 20Architectural design for a theatre backdrop signed "Tasca, 3

BBakst, Leon, 6Bella, Stefano, 6

CCappiello, Leonetto, 7Chagall, 7Cocteau, Jean, 8Complete Series of 12 Engravings of Sets from…, 21Cosi Fan Tutte, 18Craig, E, 9, 10Craig, Edward, 11

EEntree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul, 6

GGide André, 11Gozzi, Carlo, 12

KKean, Edmund, 12Khmury, V, 13

LL'origine dell' Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza con una…, 9Le Guide du Carrossier, 4Le Roi Candaule, Drame in Trois Actes, 11Les Franconis. Lithograph, hand colored. Printed Metz: Imprimerie…, 4Letter 31 Lines, 8vo. With autograph address and…, 14Lola Montez, 14Lucifer, 17

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MMacready, William, 15Madame de Pompadour et la cour de Louis…, 10Martin, John, 15Miller, Arthur, 16Miro, Joan, 17Mozart Wolfgang, 18Mr. Kean in Richard the Third. Act IV…, 12

NNos Actrices, 7

OOswego Falls Opera House, 22

PParis / l'Opera Romeo and Juliet, 7Playbill on silk, 15Poiret, Paul, 19Poster, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939, 8Printsessa Turandot, 12

RRutherson, Albert, 20

SSeven Ages of Shakspeare, The, 15Smit, J, 21Stephens, John, 22

TTaglioni, Marie, 22Teatral'ni stroi, 13The Price, 16Typed letter, signed "Paul Poiret" dated 28 April…, 19

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