This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...some ladies wholly absent themselves from the playhouse; and others never miss the first night of a new play, lest it should prove too luscious to admit of their going with any countenance to the second;"--a most exquisite reason. It was good enough however to authorize vizards; and the theatre became something like ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...some ladies wholly absent themselves from the playhouse; and others never miss the first night of a new play, lest it should prove too luscious to admit of their going with any countenance to the second;"--a most exquisite reason. It was good enough however to authorize vizards; and the theatre became something like what Nat Lee in his 'Nero' describes Mount Ida to have been, --"Where the gods meet and dance in masquerade I" But Mount Ida had something divine about it, which our stage in the days of vizards certainly had not. As Joe Haines said to his masked audience, in the concluding lines of the prologue to the very play just named--"All tragedies, egad! to me sound oddly; I can no more be serious than you godly." The fashion, after it bad been indifferently well worn by the ladies, of course fell to their maids, and Abigail wore the vizard which Lady Betty dropped. In Malcolm's 'London' (eighteenth century) a writer is quoted, whose communication shows whither the masks had fallen in 1731. It is in a letter on "Boxing Day," and in it occurs the following passage: --" My friend next carried me to the upper end of Piccadilly, where, one pair of stairs over a stable, we found near a hundred people of both sexes (some masked, others not), a great part of which were dancing to the music of two sorry fiddles. It is impossible to describe this medley of mortal fully; however, I will do it as well as I can. There were footmen, servant-maids, butchers, apprentices, oyster and orange women, and sharpers, which appeared to be the best of the company. This horrid place seemed to be a complete nursery for the gallows. My friend informed me it was called 'a threepenny hop;' and while we were talking, to my great satisfaction, by ...
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New York 1855 1st Redfield. Chapters on Morals, Wigs, Gloves, Swords, Buttons, Stockings, Tailors, etc. Hardcover. Small octavo, 402pp., original brown cloth. Fairly Good, worn, puncture hole in spine, cloth discolored. Original printing. Binding secure. Hinges not cracked; no dj.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Small octavoCloth hardback boundGilt lettering on spineClean text Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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