By command, Her Majesty's Servants will perform, at Windsor Castle, on Friday, January 31st, 1851, Shakespere's comedy of As You Like It.
1851
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Details
Title
By command, Her Majesty's Servants will perform, at Windsor Castle, on Friday, January 31st, 1851, Shakespere's comedy of As You Like It.
Variant title
At head of title: Royal entertainment
Published
[Windsor] : [Windsor Castle?], [1851]
Printed
[Great Britain?] : Chapman and Compy
Description
1 sheet ; 22.5 x 19 cm
Associated name
Windsor Castle, publisher.
Chapman and Company (Edinburgh, Scotland), printer.
Dobbs & Co. (London, England), embosser.
Chapman and Company (Edinburgh, Scotland), printer.
Dobbs & Co. (London, England), embosser.
Summary
Playbill for a production of Shakespeare's As you like it at Windsor Castle on January 31, 1851, performed by "Her Majesty's Servants" and directed by Charles Kean, who had been appointed director of the Windsor Castle Theatricals in 1848.
Note
Title devised by cataloger.
Blank, unprinted half of sheet folded behind.
One-inch margins around all edges of playbill are embossed and perforated to resemble lace, with the coat of arms of the United Kingdom embossed above the printed text. The name "Dobbs" is printed just above the top edge of the bottom margin (Dobbs & Co., a London-based firm that pioneered a technique of embossing paper and filing the raised areas for a lace-like effect).
Blank, unprinted half of sheet folded behind.
One-inch margins around all edges of playbill are embossed and perforated to resemble lace, with the coat of arms of the United Kingdom embossed above the printed text. The name "Dobbs" is printed just above the top edge of the bottom margin (Dobbs & Co., a London-based firm that pioneered a technique of embossing paper and filing the raised areas for a lace-like effect).
Genre/form
Playbills.
Cast lists.
Cast lists.
Geographic name
Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England), event place.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead), -- publication place, -- manufacture place.
Item Details
Call number
PLAYBILL 270170
Folger-specific note
Slightly foxed.
Folger accession
270170