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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
A select collection of English plays. In six volumes
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Bound volume containing handwritten late 18th century copies of six English plays in various hands, collated by John Philip Kemble in 1800. The titles consist of Fortune's Taske, or The Fickle Fair One by John Horne (HM 11); The Meeting of the Company; or Baye's Art of Acting by David Garrick (HM 12); The Jubilee by Garrick (HM 13); The Nice Wanton (HM 14); A Warning for Faire Women (HM 15); and The Marriage of Witte and Science (HM 16). Laid in are two clipped engravings: one of men and a woman standing in a room with a dog in the foreground by J. Clark and "The Wonder" by Burney, printed for J. Bell, 1792. The title page of each play has the handwritten note of John Philip Kemble: "Collated & Perfect, J.P.K. 1800."
mssHM 11-16