[Rarebooks] OFER:UNIQUE CARICATURAL THEATRICAL TOUR OF NORTH AMERICA.

[Laderman]

BEAUMONT, J.H.: AMERICAN SKETCHES. MORE OR LESS FROM LIFE.  NP, 1904. 
Oblong 4to TP + 27 FP Original comic drawings in pen and ink, of Forbes 
Robertson's troupe of English actors on tour in U.S.A. and Canada. Unique! 
Completely professional and quite spirited work, it looks ready for 
lithographic reproduction. The company is caricatured in activities 
appropriate to the seasons spring, fall and winter, in a connected series 
following their tour, stop by stop. The actors are identified as "fussy", 
"Old Coff", (Coffersham), "Aubrey", "Polly", and "Scotch". Forbes 
Robertson,  was the lead actor and leader of the troupe. He had a leading 
man's face, tall with a white handle bar moustache and a perpetual tan. 
Cities visited included Niagara, Buffalo, Providence, Montreal, Detroit, 
Cincinnati and Cleveland. Subjects of cartoons include  golf, photography, 
a magician "The Great Malin", Firehouse, The effect of a nude painting on 
the troupe[mayhem ensues],  There is a long sequence of winter scenes in 
Montreal,  Beaumont is obviously one of the actors, but he could easily 
have been an editorial or comic strip cartoonist. A unique theatrical 
record and a high spirited one. The last scene shows them home again, 
sprinting for English grub: "Chops, Steaks, Ales." The pen drawing over the 
pencil sketching is so assured and professional that I bought this from a 
very good professional bookman, at his shop who thought it was a printed 
book! About Fine in Orig. cloth. $2750.00

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