- Title: The Calcutta gazette; or Oriental advertiser : published by authority.
- Published: Calcutta : Francis Gladwin, 1784-
File 61 C144
Acquired April 2020
File 61 C144
Acquired April 2020
61 P416
Acquired December 2020
53 L896 746
Acquired March 2020
A bound album with “Biographical sketch of the life of Mr. Theodore Lane” (pages [33]-59 from Pierce Egan’s 1831 publication: The show folks! (London : Printed for M. Arnold, 1831)), extra-illustrated with portraits of actors, actors in performances, playwrights, and art patrons, followed by cropped impressions, mounted, of the twenty-seven hand-colored plates that accompanied with Pierce Egan’s 1825 The life of an actor and on the final four leaves the nine small, black and white vignettes, also of theatrical scenes also from Egan’s Life of an actor. Lane was an English painter and engraver, who excelled at comic illustration. Also bound in at the front is an autograph letter from Egan dated 15 June 1832 to Mr. Elliott.
Quarto 56 Eg13 832m
Acquired June 2020
51 A2 Ec17
Acquired August 2020
53 R332 780
Acquired July 2020
644 801 N83
Acquired February 2020
63 806 Sm642
Acquired January 2020
69 807 P871
Acquired June 2020
494 F638 607
Acquired March 2020