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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New hardback copy. First edition. New cloth copy in a new dust-wrapper. 211pp, illustrations, theatrical biographies and index. Size of book in inches is 11.0 x 7.8 (29 cm x 20 cms). Art reference hardback published by the V&A Museum in London in 1992. The Theatre Museum in London has since its formation in 1974 built an outstanding collection of paintings to do with the theatre. Among the great performers of the last three centuries who were featured are Thomas Betterton, David Garrick, Mrs Siddons, Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Laurence Oliver, Boris Christoff and John Gielgud. This book - for the first time ever - has all 123 paintings of the Theatre Museum fully described and reproduced as a complete collection by Geoffrey Ashton, the then leading expert in the field. The catalogue includes theatrical biographies of the sitters as well as indexes of the artists, plays represented and previous owners. This is an illustrated catalogue of the collection of over 100 paintings at the Theatre Museum (National Museum of the Performing Arts, London). It contains works by major artists, including Sir Peter Lely, George Clint, Walter Sickert, Roger Fry and Derek Hill. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK. Seller Inventory # ABE-1698483153472