Playbill (facsimile), [1831].

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Playbill (facsimile), [1831].

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One leaf reproducing a playbill for a performance of Romeo and Juliet and other works at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The date "3 Jan. 1831" is written in pencil in a much later hand.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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