Title: Fugitive pieces. Written by J. P. Kemble
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [iii], vi-vii, [1] (blank), pp. 44, ff. [2] (blank). Half-morocco on cloth, gilded boards and spine. Manuscript label pasted on first blank: "Collated &amp; perfect. [9 Mr.?] 1792." In English, with some poems in Latin.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A small collection of poetry by the British actor John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), who soon after became player-manager at the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane. There, in 1796, Kemble had resisted to stage the play ‘Vortigern,’ a Shakespeare forgery by William Henry Ireland (see also Bib# 464373/Fr# 494 in this collection).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/t3c16/alma991000227739707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>