by James Winston, a facsimile edited by Iain Mackintosh
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This is the only account of British theatre written by a man who was both an actor and a manager as well as author and artist. James Winston travelled throughout Britain recording details and making sketches of nearly 300 theatres. It was published in 1804-5 as a deluxe edition with 24 hand-coloured plates and 72 pages of text. Very few copies survive and until now it has never been reprinted. Winston’s individual style recounting the buildings, players and atmosphere of the time is a unique record of Georgian playhouses and a valuable piece of social history for anyone interested in the performing arts in Britain in the early nineteenth century.
Hardback 96 pp, 24 col illus., (2008), ISBN 978 0 7123 5015 0
Co-published with British Library Publishing.
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