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Total number of records: 86

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items84
Archives2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive29
Brotherton Collection23
English Literature10
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
actors86
theater27
english drama9
actresses6
latin drama, medieval and modern6
oratorio6
theatrical producers and directors6
acteurs4
decedents' estates2
motion picture actors and actresses2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union13
Russia (Federation)4
Great Britain2
Russia2
England1
Greece1
Nigeria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baker, David Erskine (1730-1767)6
Jones, Stephen6
Jones, Stephen (1763-1827)6
Reed, Isaac6
Reed, Isaac (1742-1807)6
Cecil Betsalel Roth4
Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)4
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-19384
בצלאל ססיל רות4
רות, בצלאל4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17007
From 180027
From 190046
From 20005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17997
Up to 189926
Up to 199946
Up to latest6

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Literary and theatrical manuscripts of Cyril Maude

Maude, Cyril (1862-1951)

c.1882-1942

Comprises: Box 1: 27 vols of musical scores for performing 'She stoops to conquer'; 4 vols of stage instructions for performing 'Grumpy', 1 for each Act; 2 notebooks; 1 five year diary, 19-?. Box 2: T...

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Scrapbook containing prints of actors and actresses

c.1825-1875

Cuttings have been taken from a variety of unattributed sources and include some late-18th-century plates

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The history of the English state, from the restauration to the present time : Including the lives, characters and amours, of the most eminent actors and actresses. With instructions for public speaking; wherein the action and utterance of the bar, state, pulpit are distinctly considered

Betterton, Thomas (1635?-1710); Oldys, William (1696-1761); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Egerton, William

1741

Pages 30 and 31 (2d seq.) misnumbered 31 and 30 respectively. Includes table of contents. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Dedication signed: E. Curll. "A compilation by Oldys et al,...

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Les métiers du théàtre

Paraf, Pierre (1893-)

1923

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The stage in the year 1900 : a souvenir, being a collection of photogravure plates portraying the leading players and playwrights of the day and a history of the stage during the Victorian era

Hooper, William Eden; Knight, Joseph (1829-1907)

1901

"Edition de luxe of three hundred copies." Each plate accompanied by guardsheet with descriptive letterpress.

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M.S. Shchepkin : ego zhiznʹ i s︠t︡senicheska︠i︡a d︠i︡e︠i︡atelʹnostʹ : bīograficheskīe ocherki

︠I︡Ar︠t︡sev, A A

1893

Includes bibliographical references (page [4]).

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David Garrick : a biography

Kendall, Alan (1939-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1985

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My life in the Russian theatre

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir I (1858-1943); Cournos, John (1881-1966)

1936

Originally published as "Iz proshlogo". s.l. : Academia, 1936.

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The life of an actor

Egan, Pierce (1772-1849); Greenwood, T; Lane, Theodore (1800-1828)

1892

Plates colored by hand.

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I. A. Bunin i imena teatralʹnoĭ Rossii

Pikuleva, Galina Ivanovna

Includes bibliographical references.

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Lettre à Emile Zola (1898)

Regnault, Alice (1849-); Michel, Pierre (1942-)

1991

"Tirage a été limité à 25...et 100 exemplaires"--Colophon.

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