Shelfmark
Krr.3.05
Main entry--corporate name
Title
The album of the Cambridge Garrick Club: : containing original and select papers on the drama, and the proceedings of that society. / Edited by a member of the club.
Varying form of title
Distinctive title: Garrick album
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Published for the society, by W. H. Smith, Rose Crescent., 1836. (Cambridge : printed by Metcalfe and Palmer, Trinity Street.)
Physical description
xvi, [6], 287, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (ports, facsims) ; 17 cm.
Note
Description of facsimiles: 1) autograph letter by Garrick, tipped-in between pp. 42-43; 2) autographs of various actors and dramatists, tipped-in between pp. 140-141, with the following statement of manufacture: "Lithographed for the "Garrick Album" by Metcalfe & Palmer, from the originals in possession of the editor."
Note
Varying form of title taken from facsimile of autographs.
Note
Subjects of portraits: J. S. Knowles, David Garrick, W. C. Macready, M. R. Mitford, Charles Kemble, Braham, Liston, Douglas Jerrold.
Note
Manufacture information from title-page verso.
Binding
Contemporary three-quarter green leather binding with marbled paper covers; leather on covers outlined by black double fillets. Spine divided by five false bands outlined by vertical black fillets; compartments tooled with "Garrick Club Album" and "Shakspeariana", and rectangles comprised of single gilt fillets, one with a foliate stamp; headbands of alternating red and yellow. Pastedowns and endpapers of the same marbled paper. Textblock marbled all over to the same pattern; narrow squares with textblock rounded off.
Subject
Theater England Cambridge.
Subject
Actors Great Britain.
Added entry--name
W. H. Smith & Son publisher.
Added entry--name
Metcalfe and Palmer printer.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Identifier
B50366