"Their Majesties' Servants"
Reading edition
Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.
VOLUME THE FIRST
Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON
"THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS"
ANNALS
OF
THE ENGLISH STAGE
FROM
THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN
BY
Dr. DORAN, F.S.A.
EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT W. LOWE
With Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE FIRST
LONDON
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