ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE FROM THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN. By DR. DORAN, F.S.A. Edited and Revised by R. W. LOWE from Author's Annotated Copy. With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings. NOTE.--The following are some of the chief features of this new edited and revised edition of Dr. Doran's well-known work. It is illustrated for the first time with fifty newly engraved copperplate portraits of the leading and best known actors and actresses, all of which are printed as India proofs. There are also fifty-six illustrations, newly engraved on wood, printed on fine Japanese paper, and mounted at the head of each chapter, as well as some twenty or more character illustrations, also newly engraved on wood, and printed with the text at end of the chapters. There are numerous new and original footnotes given, as well as a copious and exhaustive Index to each volume. Besides the demy 8vo edition, a limited number will be printed on royal 8vo, fine deckle-edged paper, with a duplicate set of the fifty portraits, one on Japanese paper and the other on plate paper, as India proofs. Each of these copies will be numbered. _A Bibliography of Theatrical Literature._ In demy 8vo, 400 pages, cloth, price 18s. _net_. Also, One Hundred Copies on fine deckle-edge royal 8vo paper, each numbered. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH THEATRICAL LITERATURE FROM _THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY_. By ROBERT W. LOWE. NOTE.--There is as yet no Bibliography of the general literature of the stage. Plays have been catalogued many times, and some of our greatest bibliographers have directed their attention to Shakespearian literature; but no attempt has been made to give even the baldest catalogue of the large and curious mass of books relating to the History of the Stage, the Biography of Actors and Actresses, the Controversy regarding the Influence of the Stage, the numerous curious Theatrical Trials, and the many scandalous attacks on the personal character of celebrated performers. In the last two classes especially there are many curious pamphlets dealing with the strangest scandals, and often containing the most disgraceful accusations, of which no account is to be found except in the originals themselves, which, having been in many cases suppressed, are of extreme rarity.