Lot 278
Theatre.- Hédelin (François, Abbot of Aubignac) The Whole Art of the Stage..., first edition in English, for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, 1684.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
Theatre.- Hédelin (François, Abbot of Aubignac) The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, but many curious Observations about it, first edition in English, title within double-rule border, occasional light marking or soiling, but very good generally, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, rubbed, covers detached, [Wing A4185], small 4to, for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, 1684.
⁂ First English edition of Hédelin's influential 1657 treatise on theatre, one of the first of its kind published in France.
Provenance: "E. Lib. Joh. Hooke Trin. Coll. Camb. 1722" (ink inscription).
Description
Theatre.- Hédelin (François, Abbot of Aubignac) The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, but many curious Observations about it, first edition in English, title within double-rule border, occasional light marking or soiling, but very good generally, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, rubbed, covers detached, [Wing A4185], small 4to, for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, 1684.
⁂ First English edition of Hédelin's influential 1657 treatise on theatre, one of the first of its kind published in France.
Provenance: "E. Lib. Joh. Hooke Trin. Coll. Camb. 1722" (ink inscription).
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