Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana
Subtitle: the library of a seventeenth-century actor
By: Jacob Hooke ; edited with an introduction by David Roberts
Edition: A new edition.
Publisher: The Society for Theatre Research
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780854300778
Subjects: Books and reading; Actors
Description: Modern annotated edition of the sale catalog of the books and pictures of Thomas Betterton, the leading actor and manager of the English Restoration theatre, listing approximately 600 books and more than 2,500 engravings and paintings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Betterton : a brief chronology; title: The catalogue. Title page and prefatory matter to Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana ; Folios ; Quartos ; Octavos ; Prints and drawings ; Paintings ; Books omitted; title: Appendix : Betterton and the Chandos portrait.