Theatre

The Everyday Life of the Thornton-Barnett Theatre Company 1785-1853, b&w illustrations from portraits, prints, drawings and old photographs, reproductions of playbills and old documents, maps (including one on endpapers), bibliographical appendix, index, xiv & 245 pp, glazed pictorial boards (no d/w, but I doubt whether there ever was one), top and base of spine a trifle bumped, slight crinkling to some pages (as if from damp, though there are no damp marks), otherwise in very good condition, Society for Theatre Research 2001

23.5 x 14.9 cm, 610g, ISBN 0 85430 069 4

Operating largely in the south of England – the two theatres furthest north were Oxford and Chelmsford.  See below the extract from the author’s introduction, and the biographical note from the book’s rear cover.

Still in print at £19.50.