Bookplate, adorned with the Bath city crest and the Latin motto Floreat Bathon (“Let Bath flourish”), reads :

“This book is a gift from the City of Bath.”

Beside it, a typed note:

“A gift from Bath to Alkmaar” Help Holland Council"

Moved by the plight of Alkmaar’s citizens during the hunger winter (1944-1945), Bath’s civic leaders and residents rallied to help. The effort was spearheaded by Eli Prins, a Dutch Jewish refugee who had escaped to Bath, and Jimmie Wills, secretary of the Bath Rotary Club. Together, they galvanized the community, raising funds and collecting donations of food, clothing, and books.

CONDITION
Ex-Library Set with library stamps throughout.
Good Condition.
Faded Front & Back Boards and Spines
Signs of use

Volume I:
Preface --
List of authorities --
Book I. The court: --
Elizabeth and James ; The royal household ; The Revels Office ; Pageantry ; The mask ; The mask (continued) ; The court play --
Book II. The control of the stage: Humanism and Puritanism ; The struggle of court and city ; The actor's quality ; The actor's economics

Volume II:
Book III. The companies: Introduction. The boy companies. Introduction ; THe boy companies- Children of Paul's ; Children of the chapel and Queen's Revels ; Children of Windsor ; Children of the King's Revels ; Children of Bristol ; Westminster School ; Eton College ; Merchant Taylors School ; The Earl of Leicester's Boys ; The Earl of Oxford Boys ; Mr. Stanley's Boys --
The adult companies. The court interludes ; The Earl of Leicester's men ; Lord Rich's men ; Lord Abergavenny's men ; The Earl of Sussex's men ; Sir Robert Lane's men ; The Earl of Lincoln's (Lord Clinton's) men ; The Earl of Warwick's men ; The Earl of Oxford's men ; The Earl of Essex's men ; Lord Vaux's men ; Lord Berkeley's men ; Queen Elizabeth's men ; The Earl of Arundel's men ; The Earl of Hertford's men ; Mr. Evelyn's men ; The Earl of Derby's (Lord Strange's) men ; The Earl of Pembroke's men ; The Earl of Pembroke's men ; The Lord Admiral's (Lord Howard's, Earl of Nottingham's), Prince Henry's, and Elector Palatine's men ; The Lord Chamberlain's (Lord Hunsdon's) and King's men ; The Earl of Worcester's and Queen Anne's men ; The Duke of Lennox's men ; The Duke of York's (Prince Charles's) men ; The Lady Elizabeth's men ; International companies. Italian players in England ; English players in Scotland ; English players on the continent Actors
Book IV. The play-houses: Introduction. The public theatres. Introduction ; The public theatres- The Red Lion Inn ; The Bull Inn ; The Bell Inn ; The Bel Savage Inn ; The Cross Keys Inn ; The Theatre ; The Curtain ; Newington Butts ; The Rose ; The Swan ; The Globe ; The Fortune ; The Boar's Head ; The Red Bull ; The Hope ; Porter's Hall --
The private theatres. The Blackfriars ; The Whitefriars --
The Structure and conduct of theatres

Volume III:
Staging at court ; Staging in the theatres: Sixteenth Century ; Staging in the theatres: Seventeenth Century --
Book V. Plays and playwrights: The printing of plays ; Playwrights

Volume IV:
Anonymous work: Plays ; Masks ; Receptions and entertainments --
Appendices: A court calendar ; Court payments ; Documents of criticism ; Documents of control ; Plague records ; The Presence-Chamber of Greenwich ; Serlio's Trattato sopra le Scene ; The Gull's Hornbook ; Restoration testimony ; Academic plays ; Printed plays ; Lost plays ; Manuscript plays