Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777. Image ‘Playbills printed on silk, prefaced by note by … ones. The minutiae of the playbill’s design varied, but from the mid-century onwards London playbills for theatres like Covent Garden and Drury Lane tended to include similar information: the names of plays, the names of players, the …
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