Theatre Lighting Before Electricity

Penzel, Frederick

$58.00

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Place Published: Connecticut
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1978
Illustrator: b&w illustrations
Size: large 8vo

Illustrated history of stage lighting before electricity, with chapters on lighting up to 1660, from the Restoration to 1800, and then with focus on the use of Gas, Gaslighting on the American Stage, the impact of Gas on the theatre, Gaslighting instruments; 50 b&w illustrations; mild wear to rear pastedown, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. G-VG.

ID: 24045 Category: