Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcvi. ‘Patient Grissilda: A Musical Entertainment’; circa 1810 [watermark 1803]. Manuscript in two acts. (247/29). 205 x 170mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vols. xc a-c. Manuscript of John Dryden’s ‘Sir Martin Marr-all, or, The Feign’d Innocence’; circa 1820s. In the hand of George Lamb. (247/22-24).
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcii. ‘Antony and Cleopatra: an historical play’, printed by Dryden Leach, 1758. Annotated with notes for the printer and, in a different hand, for production; numbered 1677 on the cover (lot number from the sale of Charles Kemble’s library in 1821 where it was purchase...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcix. ‘The Man of Gallantry’; circa 1820s. Manuscript play in George Lamb’s hand. (247/16-21). Five notebooks. 235 x 190mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xci. Prose translation from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, entitled ‘The Episod of Sophronia and Olindo in the Second Canto’; in a late seventeenth-century hand, with revisions. (247/5). 234 x 180mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xciii. Manuscript prompt copy of Antony and Cleopatra; circa 1800. Annotated by John Philip Kemble with notes for production. Purchased by George Lamb at the sale of Charles Kemble’s library in 1821. (247/6). 245 x 200mm. John Philip Kemble, actor: Prompt book of Antony...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcv. Draft manuscript of ‘The Days of King Arthur or Fairy Land’, a play in two acts; circa 1800 [watermark, 1798]. Written in an unidentified hand with corrections and revisions by George Lamb. Folios 39-47 stuck together with sealing wax. (247/3). 320 x 205mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. lxxxix. Incomplete copy of John Dryden ‘Sir Martin Marr-all, or, The Feign’d Innocence’; [printed for Herringman, 1678]. pp.27-60 only (part of Act III and Act IV). Annotated for production. (247/15). 218 x 160mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xciv. Manuscript prompt book for John Philip Kemble’s ‘Czartoriska: an Opera in Three Acts’; 1794. The title was originally ‘Lodoiska’ but was altered by Kemble. [Adapted from the French by Kemble to music by Storace, with Michael Kelly in the part of Count Floreski, pl...