[Rarebooks] FS: 1807 Prints of Stage Action & Rhetorical Gestures

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Siddons, Henry.  "Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and
Action, adapted to the English drama. From a work on the same subject by
M. Engel, member of the Royal Academy of Berlin"

London; Printed for Richard Phillips: 1807.

“Embellished with numerous engravings, expressive of the various passions,
and representing the modern costume of the London theatres”. In his
Introductory notes Siddons writes that Engel’s work had a distinctly
Germanic feel, and featured figures from the German stage. For this reason
he did not simply translate Engel’s work, but adapted it as well, for the
English reader. The plates illustrate actors and actresses in a variety of
historically-oriented costumes which appeared on the English stage, and
actors is all modes of histrionic athleticism.

Hardcover. 5.5”x8”, iv + 387 + [xxv] pages, plus 67 (of 68) figures on 65
(of 66) engraved plates (two plates each having two figures) as called for
in the plate list. Bound in full period leather with a new leather spine.
The boards have a gilt Greek Key design along their edges. Boards somewhat
rubbed and with some soil, spine new, with a black label and gilt title.
Old marbled endpapers. Light internal soil, slight staining to the edges
of some plates, etc. Rubberstamp of “Mr. Edmund Burke, Professor of
Elocution, Mountjoy Square, Dublin” on page 1.  [31384]  $350.00

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