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Dickens (Charles).- The Amateur Company of the Guild of Literature & Art, will have the honor of performing... a New Comedy in Five Acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., called Not So Bad As We Seem: of Many Sides to a Character.... The performance to conclude with... Mr. Nightingale's Diary, Tuesday Evening, May 27th, 1851 [-] Friday Evening, August 27th, 1852, 5 printed playbills, printed in red and black, folds, some light browning, minor creasing and chipping, each c.505 x 250mm., 1851-2.

A superb collection of rare playbills advertising touring productions by Dickens and Bulwer Lytton to raise money for their Guild of Literature and Art, including that for the first performance of Mr. Nightingale's Diary.

Dickens and Lytton first conceived of the Guild of Literature and Art in 1850 as a fund to support struggling artists and writers. Over the next decade they would devote a great deal of time and energy to promoting and raising money for the cause, each writing a new farce to be performed to that end. The performers here include Dickens himself, Wilkie Collins (who met Dickens for the first time in early 1851), John Tenniel, Augustus Egg, Charles Knight, Mark Lemon, John Forster and Douglas Jerrold.

Lot 85

Dickens (Charles).- The Amateur Company of the Guild of Literature & Art, will have the honor of performing... a New Comedy in Five Acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., called Not So Bad As We Seem: of Many Sides to a Character, 1851-2.  

Hammer Price: £3,800

Description

Dickens (Charles).- The Amateur Company of the Guild of Literature & Art, will have the honor of performing... a New Comedy in Five Acts, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., called Not So Bad As We Seem: of Many Sides to a Character.... The performance to conclude with... Mr. Nightingale's Diary, Tuesday Evening, May 27th, 1851 [-] Friday Evening, August 27th, 1852, 5 printed playbills, printed in red and black, folds, some light browning, minor creasing and chipping, each c.505 x 250mm., 1851-2.

A superb collection of rare playbills advertising touring productions by Dickens and Bulwer Lytton to raise money for their Guild of Literature and Art, including that for the first performance of Mr. Nightingale's Diary.

Dickens and Lytton first conceived of the Guild of Literature and Art in 1850 as a fund to support struggling artists and writers. Over the next decade they would devote a great deal of time and energy to promoting and raising money for the cause, each writing a new farce to be performed to that end. The performers here include Dickens himself, Wilkie Collins (who met Dickens for the first time in early 1851), John Tenniel, Augustus Egg, Charles Knight, Mark Lemon, John Forster and Douglas Jerrold.

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