DRURY LANE THEATRE. Collection of manuscripts and printed ephemera relating to Drury Lane, Covent Garden and other theatres, comprising: 'Prologues and Epilogues' spoken at the London theatres, extracted from periodicals, [late 18th Century], and tipped on to 60 pages, 8vo, index; a fragmentary journal of a theatre-goer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, January 1819, 17 pages, small 4to (heavily dampstained); an album of newspaper extracts relating to Edmund Kean, 1814-1874, 42 leaves, folio, green cloth; a manuscript history of Drury Lane from 1812, [c.1890], approximately 150 pages, folio, in a ledger, vellum boards; and a volume of engravings of 19th century theatrical characters, 4to, half green morocco.	 (5)
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DRURY LANE THEATRE. Collection of manuscripts and printed ephemera relating to Drury Lane, Covent Garden and other theatres, comprising: 'Prologues and Epilogues' spoken at the London theatres, extracted from periodicals, [late 18th Century], and tipped on to 60 pages, 8vo, index; a fragmentary journal of a theatre-goer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, January 1819, 17 pages, small 4to (heavily dampstained); an album of newspaper extracts relating to Edmund Kean, 1814-1874, 42 leaves, folio, green cloth; a manuscript history of Drury Lane from 1812, [c.1890], approximately 150 pages, folio, in a ledger, vellum boards; and a volume of engravings of 19th century theatrical characters, 4to, half green morocco. (5)

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DRURY LANE THEATRE. Collection of manuscripts and printed ephemera relating to Drury Lane, Covent Garden and other theatres, comprising: 'Prologues and Epilogues' spoken at the London theatres, extracted from periodicals, [late 18th Century], and tipped on to 60 pages, 8vo, index; a fragmentary journal of a theatre-goer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, January 1819, 17 pages, small 4to (heavily dampstained); an album of newspaper extracts relating to Edmund Kean, 1814-1874, 42 leaves, folio, green cloth; a manuscript history of Drury Lane from 1812, [c.1890], approximately 150 pages, folio, in a ledger, vellum boards; and a volume of engravings of 19th century theatrical characters, 4to, half green morocco. (5)