St George & ye dragon; or Harlequin and ye seven champions of Christendom. : a grand comic Christmas pantomime, 1857-58. /
Logan, W. H.(William Hugh),-1882.
Haswelle, Keeley,1832-1891,illustrator.
Irving, Henry,Sir,1838-1905,associated name.StEdNL
Odell, E. J.,1834-1928,associated name.StEdNL
Queen's Theatre & Opera House (Edinburgh, Scotland)
[Edinburgh] : Queen's Theatre, Edinburgh. R. H. Wyndham, lessee and manager.,
[1857]
Drawn and lithographed by Keeley Haswelle.
With and extra illustrated title page printed in red of St. George. and his champions.
First edition of a Christmas pantomime produced for one of Wyndham's two Edinburgh theatres. Ralston Inglis, The Dramatic Writers of Scotland (1858), p. 67, credits this pantomime to W. H. Logan (died 1882) saying "Since Mr. Wyndham's accession to the management of the Edinburgh Theatre, Mr. Logan has supplied him with all his occasional addresses, and with several good pieces, more particularly with the annual burlesque opening to the several very successful pantomimes produced at that house, not equaled in display even, in London ... St. George and ye Dragon ... Bopeep ...". The DNB say Wyndham's Little Bo-Peep was "highly successful.". Illustrated by Keeley Haswelle (1832-1891), an English artist and book illustrator whose work for the Illustrated Shakespeare of Robert Chambers took him to Edinburgh.
Tipped in is a short manuscript letter and its accompanying stamped envelope from Henry Irving to his friend and fellow actor, the professional villain E. J. Odell (1834-1928). The envelope is addressed to the Junior Garrick Club, a place Odell "haunted". Irving joined Wyndham's company in 1856 and made his first appearance in Edinburgh in February 1857.
In original yellow printed wrappers.
Scotland Edinburgh.