1454100 1749 William R. Chetwood. A General History of the Stage.

 

Chetwood, William Rufus.  A general Hostory of the Stage, From Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Time.  London: W. Owen, 1749.  Duodecimo, contemporary panelled calf gilt, rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine label.  Light shelfwear to handsome boards, corners bumped, edges browned.  First edition of Chetwood's first-hand survey of the eighteenth-century London stage, boased on his twenty years as a prompter at the Theater-Royal in