REFERENCE CODE: LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/73

ADMINISTRATIVE/BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: No further information.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Miscellaneous music hall and theatre playbills and handbills from the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, including:

• Playbill for a performance by Mr Love, the 'Celebrated Polyphonist' at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, 1834
• Playbill for a performance of 'Evil May Day' at the Royal City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, 1837
• Playbill for performances of 'Rob Roy!', 'The Miller's Maid' and 'Sudden Thoughts' at the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, 1839
  
• Playbill for a performance of 'Love's Lenten Lucubrations' with Mr Love, and 'Mine Host's Dilemmas' at the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, March 1837
  
• Playbill for performances of 'Adventures at an Inn', 'Vol-au-Vent' and 'A Day Well Spent', n.d.
• Playbill for performances of 'Don Juan', 'Married Rake', 'Life and Fashion' and 'Rose of Corbell' at the Royal City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, n.d.
• Playbill for a performance of '5 Degrees of Crime' at the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, March 1833
• Playbill for a grand concert and ball at the Princess Royal Saloon, Fox and Grapes, Bishopsgate Street, 6 October 1841
• Handbill for a performance of 'Jim' with Florrie Groves and George Kirk at the Royal Cambridge Theatre of Varieties, Bishopsgate, 28 January 1901
• Handbill for a show of Edisonograph animated pictures including the Funeral of the Queen and the opening of Parliament by King Edward VII, 18 February 1901
• Handbill for performances by Julie Mackay and Ena Bertoldi at the Royal Cambridge Theatre of Varieties, Bishopsgate, 4 June 1900
• Handbill for performances by Harry Pleon and Morton Comedy Trio at the Royal Cambridge Theatre of Varieties, Bishopsgate, 27 August 1900
• Handbill for performances by the Royal English Opera Company at the National Standard Theatre, Bishopsgate, August 1882
• Ticket for a performance at the City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate Street, 19 October 1838

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