1931 Popular Entertainments Through the Ages

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.

This volume is a first edition.

This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at various institutions including the British Library, University of Oxford Libraries, and National Trust Libraries among others.

McKechnie offers a richly illustrated historical survey of popular entertainment forms across eras in England, tracking their evolution from early street performers to the diverse spectacles of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Chapters include: "Mimes, Minstrels and Strolling Players," "The Fun of the Fair," "The Comedy of Masks," "Punch and Judy," "Pantomime," "The "Halls", "The Cinematograph," and "The Circus."

This volume is richly illustrated, including four colour plate illustrations, including a frontispiece, with a further sixty-eight black and white plates and one in-text illustration. Collated, complete.